The Pontifical Academy for Life: A Post-Conciliar Laboratory of Religious Indifferentism and Naturalistic Humanism
The EWTN News portal reports that Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, president of the so-called Pontifical Academy for Life, offered an overview of the activities of this conciliar body nearly a year into his appointment by the antipope Leo XIV. Pegoraro presented the academy as a center for “interdisciplinary dialogue” involving biologists, doctors, philosophers, theologians, and lawyers to address “new challenges” concerning human life, including artificial intelligence, end-of-life care, neuroscience, neonatal care, and disability ethics. Most revealingly, Pegoraro openly admitted that since 2016 the academy no longer requires members to be Catholic or to sign a pro-life declaration, and now includes Jewish, Muslim, and Greek Orthodox members who merely “agree with basic values concerning human life.” The academy’s mission is framed entirely in the language of “human dignity” and the protection of life from “beginning to end” — a thoroughly naturalistic framework stripped of any reference to the supernatural end of man, the Kingship of Christ, or the authority of the true Church. This is not a Catholic institution engaged in defending the faith; it is a post-conciliar syncretic body that embodies every error condemned by the pre-1958 Magisterium, from religious indifferentism to the reduction of the Church’s mission to mere humanitarianism.
