ANDREA TORNIELLI VATICAN CITY Pope Francis has appointed 45 new ordinary members to the Pontifical Academy for Life. The replacement did not take place without controversy, due to inclusion among new members of an Anglican moralist theologian, Nigel Biggar, professor of moral and pastoral theology at Oxford. The day after the appointment, the Catholic Herald recalled […]

by Edward Pentin Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who has served as president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and of the John Paul II Institute since last August, isn’t reluctant to answer tough questions. Replying to email questions from Register Rome correspondent Edward Pentin asking him to outline his vision for his new Vatican assignment and […]

ROME – Euthanasia took center stage this month in Italian politics after a polarizing case of a blind and quadriplegic man who fled to neighboring Switzerland in order to receive assisted suicide, which is illegal in Italy. “Ending a life is always a defeat,” said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for life. […]

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and the postulator for the cause of Blessed Óscar Romero, experienced firsthand pushback against the archbishop’s canonization. The delay was political and “like a dagger in my heart,” he told James Martin, S.J., in a video interview with America. “His beatification was the result of […]

  As we approach the start of the largest spring 40 Days for Life campaign EVER on March 1 … I have an encouraging message for YOU that we received over the weekend! The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life visited 40 Days for Life headquarters in Bryan, Texas — the former Planned Parenthood […]