ROME, Italy, November 10, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)
— Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life will no longer be required
to sign a declaration that they uphold the Church’s pro-life teachings.
In new statutes for the Vatican body promulgated on November 4, Pope
Francis has also expanded its mandate to include a focus on the
environment.
Pope Francis approved the statutes last month, the Vatican website announced.
Previous statutes
were issued in 2004 and enumerate the “specific tasks” (§2) of the
Academy in three points: to “study questions and issues connected with
the promotion and defense of human life from an interdisciplinary
perspective,” to “educate in a culture of life,” and to “inform the
Church and the public […] about the most relevant results of its study
and research activities.”
In the new statutes, §3 has received an addition: whereas
the paragraph previously stated that research of a scientific character
must “be directed towards the promotion and defense of human life,” the
new paragraph reads:
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