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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Theologian corrects </span>Vatican <span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)">archbishop</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)">who</span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> said priests could ‘accompany’ assisted suicide victims
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<p>December 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Dr. Monica Miller
is a theologian</b></span> who teaches at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>A
pro-life activist who’s been involved in the fight for the unborn since
the 1970s, </b></span>she <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>spoke with me about</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><b> Vatican Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia,
who<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>scandalously has <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-paglia-on-judas">said</a> those
who think Judas is in hell are "heretics" and that priests may
legitimately remain at the bedside of someone undergoing assisted
suicide in order to “hold their hand” and “accompany” them.</b></span></p>
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</div><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Dr. Miller is the head of <a href="http://www.prolifesociety.net/pages/start/startup/home.aspx">Citizens for a Pro-Life Society</a>.
</b><b>She</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>said her first reaction to <span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)">Paglia’s </span>comments was that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">it is
“theologically reckless” to say such things</span>, especially because <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">St.
Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas have said the opposite.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)"><b>Paglia </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)">“blames the culture” rather than the individual</span>,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>she told me.</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> “Satan entered [Judas]…he sided with Satan!” </b></span></p>
<p>Dr. Miller also said that <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>while <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Judas </span>did have a certain level of
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">regret</span> and wanted to give<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> the money </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">back</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">,</span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> he “failed” </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">to open himself up
to humility like Peter did when he sought forgiveness from Christ. </span></b>
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Instead, Judas “committed the sin of despair” by killing himself. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)">Archbishop Paglia is the notorious <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-term-life-must-be-redefined-new-head-of-vatican-life-academy-declares">chancellor</a>
of the new </span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)"><b>John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">
Rome</span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">.</span> </span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(230,145,56)">He </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">p</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>resided over<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the former institute’s </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>demolition</b></span>. In the past <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>he
has <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-contraception-priest-hired-to-teach-ethics-at-new-john-paul-ii-institute-in-rome">hired</a> pro-contraception faculty, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/timeline-reveals-plot-to-destroy-legacy-of-john-paul-ii-institute">removed</a> </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>pro-life ones</b></span>, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>and, in 2007, commissioned a <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/leading-vatican-archbishop-featured-in-homoerotic-painting-he-commissioned">homoerotic mural</a> of himself being embraced by another man in his </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>cathedral church. </b></span></p>
<p>Dr. Miller suggested that Archbishop Paglia “needs to go back to
seminary” because the “hyper rush to emphasize compassion” these days is
not doctrinally sound. It is “morally problematic” to hold someone’s
hand who is killing themselves, she argued. It is as problematic as a
priest or anyone to hold the hand of or support a woman who gets an
abortion. Real accompaniment, she said, is supporting and helping
someone who is suffering, not being complicit in their own death, which
is an “act of disconnection.”</p>
<p>Dr. Miller and I then spoke about how <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Christ</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> said it would have been
better if Judas had never been born</b></span>. I’ve said on many occasions that to
claim that Judas is not in hell is to make Christ a liar. Dr. Miller
agreed with me<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>. Jesus often spoke about how souls are thrown into<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> the
fire of Gehenna</span>, she said. </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>She then called on the head of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to “make a correction”
</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>because it is “dangerous” that this sort of statement would be given by
such</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(246,178,107)"><b> a high-ranking Vatican official. </b></span></p>
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