“Note that the expressions ‘natural law’ and ‘natural moral law,’ so frequent and central until the end of Benedict XVI’s pontificate, have disappeared from the language of the Church”
Don’t Flatten the Faith to Fit In at the UN
Pope Francis addresses the the United Nations World Food Programme headquarters in Rome, June 13, 2016. (Photo by Vatican Pool/Getty Images)
“At one time the Church spoke of peace ... on the basis of the natural law and the Gospel our Lord,” says Stefano Fontana. “Today she speaks of it in the sense of collaboration between religions. The change is remarkable.”
The Holy See’s ever-closer collaboration with the United Nations and its affiliated organizations is causing it to adopt the “logic of the world,” a development that threatens to secularize the faith.
These are the views of professor Stefano Fontana, director of the Cardinal Van Thuan International Observatory on the Social Doctrine of the Church — a think tank created for the international promotion of the Church’s social teaching. Its president is Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, a former Secretary of the erstwhile Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
In this Jan. 19 email interview with the Register, professor Fontana …