{"id":1176,"date":"2018-08-01T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2018-08-05T20:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T20:29:01","slug":"paul-vi-vetoed-the-pill-the-commendation-from-of-bergoglio-he-was-a-courageous-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2018\/08\/01\/paul-vi-vetoed-the-pill-the-commendation-from-of-bergoglio-he-was-a-courageous-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul VI vetoed the pill. The commendation from Bergoglio: \u00abHe was a courageous prophet!\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00abI think about Blessed Paul VI<\/strong>. He had the strength to defend<\/strong> openness to life inside the family at a time when many people were worried about population growth. He was not antiquated, close-minded. No, he was a prophet, No, he was a prophet who, with this, told us to beware of Neo-Malthusianism, which is coming\u00bb. <\/em>It is a pity that nobody is remembering these clear judgments of Pope Francis<\/strong> on the Pope of Humanae Vitae<\/em>, the Encyclical that \u2013 among other things, because it must not be reduced to that \u2013 restated the rejection of chemical contraception<\/strong> by the Church.<\/p>\n

It is an issue having become again topical<\/strong> thanks to the study of Msgr. Gilfredo Marengo<\/strong>, Professor at the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II and author of the book, The Birth of an Encyclical: ‘Humanae Vitae’ in the Light of the Vatican Archives<\/em> (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2018). It emerged<\/a><\/em> that Paul VI, on October 1967, asked for the opinions of the Synodal Fathers on contraception in view of the publication of the encyclical: Only 26 of the 200 bishops present produced a written response. The majority of them said they were in favour<\/strong> of some opening<\/strong> to the pill, while 7 were against. However, the despite the favourable opinion of the Bishops and of the consulted theologians, Montini considered it inappropriate to change the position of his predecessors and promulgated the famous encyclical (albeit without the charism of infallibility).<\/p>\n

Amongst the seven dissenting Bishops, there was also Krakow\u2019s, Karol Wojtyla<\/strong>, future John Paul II, through the so-called Memorial of Krakow. Many exponents of the Church who took a favourable view of the admissibility of the pill, instead, considered it a \u00abmeans by which the aim to avoid a new conception was reached while respecting the needs of conjugal love and the dignity of the spouse\u00bb<\/em> \u2013 writes<\/a><\/em> Msgr. Marengo. But Montini \u00abdid not judge this thesis acceptable\u00bb<\/em>, above-all because the diffusion of chemical contraception had already paved the way for \u00abdisquieting anti-natalist policies<\/strong> in many parts of the world, especially the poorer and the underdeveloped\u00bb<\/em>. The fact that the worry about antinatalist policies was crucial in the decision was also reminded by Pope Francis<\/strong>, who (of course not for this reason!) has wanted to canonise Paul VI.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the anti-papist galaxy believed the fake news<\/strong> by journalist Marco Tosatti<\/strong> \u2013 which Roberto De Mattei<\/strong> of Corrispondenza Romana<\/em> immediately believed, accusing the Pope of being willing to destroy also (beside what?) Humanae Vitae \u2013, who wrote<\/a><\/em> that \u00abat the Vatican reliable indiscretions reveal that the Pontiff would have been about to nominate \u2013 or would have even already nominated \u2013 a secret commission to examine and possibly study modifications<\/strong> of the position of the Church on contraception, as fixed in 1968 by Paul VI in the encyclical Humanae Vitae\u00bb<\/em>. That Tosatti\u2019s sources do not exist or are, anyway, made-up<\/strong> has been demonstrated by Prof. Marengo, who indirectly answered these inexplicable and continuous fake-news against the Church: \u00abHumanae Vitae is an authoritative document of the pontifical Magisterium that we are called to welcome, through an intelligent pastoral exercise. There is no need to update<\/strong> Humanae Vitae\u00bb<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, on several occasions, Francis \u2013 unlike Card. Carlo Maria Martini<\/strong>, for example \u2013 praised the courage of Paul VI to take this decision: \u00abPaul VI\u2019s rejection\u00bb \u2013 declared he, for example, in 2015<\/a><\/em>: \u00abwas watching the universal Neo-Malthusianism that was in progress\u00bb<\/em>. In 2014, instead, Bergoglio commented<\/a><\/em>: \u00abHis genius was prophetic: he had the courage to stand against the majority, to defend moral discipline<\/strong>, to exercise a cultural \u2018brake,\u2019 to oppose present and future neo-Malthusianism\u00bb<\/em>. And again<\/a><\/em>: \u00abHe knew the difficulties that are there in every family, and so in his Encyclical he was very merciful towards particular cases, and he asked confessors to be very merciful and understanding in dealing with particular cases. But he also had a broader vision: he looked at the peoples of the earth and he saw this threat of families being destroyed for lack of children<\/strong>. Paul VI was courageous; he was a good pastor and he warned his flock of the wolves who were coming. From his place in heaven, may he bless this evening!\u00bb<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thus Francis recalls Paul VI\u2019s justified fears<\/strong> about contraception \u2013 albeit inside the family \u2013 as an obstacle to the welcoming of the gift of life and to making a total gift of oneself in the sexual act; obstacle allied with the birth rate fall<\/strong>. In a historical period in which almost everybody believed in the unreal demographic bomb<\/strong>, now we know how it tragically went, and today it is up to the Italian Chicco\u2019s spot<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to remind us of the demographic winter and of the urgent necessity to give birth to children.<\/p>\n

On those occasions, Francis also observed that the Church, despite opposing contraception, has never promoted an \u201cunlimited fecundation\u201d<\/strong>, a sexuality related only to conception. Recalling the words<\/a><\/em> of John Paul II against \u201cunfettered fecundity\u201d<\/strong>, Pope Bergoglio, indeed, mentioned<\/a> \u00abmany, many licit escapes that helped with this\u00bb<\/em>. That is to say the natural methods for the regulation of fertility<\/strong>, which the Catholic Church teaches to use (in premarital courses, for instance) as effective alternatives and in harmony with the openness to life and with the total gift of oneself to the other. The Church does not limit herself to say no, but always proposes a number of yes to alternatives that she deems more respectful of human dignity.<\/p>\n

The Editorial staff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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