Article snippet: Posted at 8:25 pm on July 3, 2017 by streiff As you know, in Great Britain a 10-month old baby, Charlie Gard, has been condemned to death by a panel of doctors (can we call this a “death panel” without progressives messing themselves?) even though the parents have raised nearly $2 million dollars to move him to the United States for an experimental therapy. I posted on Thursday about the story and the unbelievable and seemingly unabashed pro-euthanasia statement issued by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life. The Academy for Life is the Vatican’s point organization in fighting abortion and euthanasia yet its statement was lukewarm towards the parents of Charlie Gard and bought into the idea that the state, not the parents, have the final say in the welfare of children. It seemed a clear abandonment of the culture of life and of Catholic social teaching on the primacy of the family in child-rearing. And, to me and to others, it seemed like this was yet another of Pope Francis’s efforts to make the Church less threatening to people who actually hate the Church. As such, I didn’t give Pope Francis the benefit of the doubt in this case and I should have. On Friday, this was sent from Pope Francis’s personal twitter account. It seems to be a direct rebuke of the Academy for Life statement. In fact, the Pope’s personal secretary, Greg Burke, shared the tweet, adding #CharlieGard, making it clear what the tweet referred to. It was followed up by a much stronge... Link to the full article to read more