The Holy See press office announced today the appointment of Fr. Maurizio Chiodi among a new batch of consultants for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. The priest was appointed a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life in 2017 and a professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family in 2019, despite the fact that he has publicly dissented from and called into question the Church’s defined teaching on sexual morality on numerous occasions.
In 2017, Chiodi gave a lecture in Rome on Humanae Vitae in which he argued that in some cases a couple is morally “required” to contracept, directly contradicting the Church’s universal prohibition of contraception, taught definitively in Humanae Vitae and Casti Connubi. Chiodi argued from Chapter 8 of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia, in support of his justification for the use of contraception.
There are “circumstances — I refer to Amoris Laetitia, Chapter 8 — that precisely for the sake of responsibility, require contraception,” Chiodi said in the lecture, delivered at the Gregorian University in Rome.
He argued that artificial contraception “could be recognized as an act of responsibility that is carried out, not in order to radically reject the gift of a child, but because in those situations responsibility calls the couple and the family to other forms of welcome and hospitality.” […]
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