Life and family experts are calling it “scandalous,” “shocking,” “confusing,” and “perplexing” that the Vatican invited Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the undisputed father of the modern, pro-abortion population control movement, to present a paper at an upcoming Vatican-run conference.
“The fact that Paul Ehrlich was advertised as a speaker at the Vatican’s ‘Biological Extinction’ conference is scandalous,” Maria Madise, manager of Voice of the Family, said.
“Through its choice of speakers, the Pontifical Academies running the event are giving an unmistakable message of sympathy for the radical environmental agenda, despite it going hand in hand with abortion, birth control, and a total lack of compassion for the real poor in today’s world, the unborn children,” she said.
Ehrlich, author of the 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb, is scheduled spoke in Vatican City during the February 27-March 1 conference that discussed “how to save the natural world.”
The Stanford biologist champions sex-selective abortion as well as mass forced sterilization as legitimate methods to curb population growth. It is impossible to calculate the possible millions of deaths globally the man and his population control ideas might indirectly be responsible for over the past five decades — ideas that are forcefully employed in countries such as China, India, Kenya, and many others.
Ehrlich called for “compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion” in his 1977 book Ecoscience, as a way to fight population growth.
The conference, jointly sponsored by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences (PAS) and Social Sciences (PASS), addressed what Vatican organizers called an unsustainable “imbalance” between the world’s population and what the earth is capable of producing.
Erlich is no friend of the Catholic Church, largely due to its teaching against contraception. Ehrlich has even gone as far as calling the Pope and the Church’s Bishops “one of the truly evil, regressive forces on the planet, in my opinion, interested primarily in maintaining their power.”
One must wonder why the Vatican would invite as a speaker someone who has denounced the Catholic Church and denigrated the Papacy as well as Catholic Bishops, the fear being that the invitation amounts to Ehrlich and his views receiving a “moral imprimatur of the Vatican.”
I add my voice to those who find this story disturbing, even bordering on scandalous.
To date, the Holy See has provided no explanation for its invitation to Dr. Erlich. Until it does so, the Catholic faithful remain in wonderment and confusion.
How this serves the proclamation of the Gospel of Life is anyone’s guess, to be sure.
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