In analyzing a recent publication of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2012-17), said that “ the document directly contradicts the Church’s received teaching without even making attempts at engaging this teaching on its own terms.”

The co-author of Cardinal Müller’s critique is Stephan Kampowski, professor of philosophical anthropology at the Pontifical Theological John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family Sciences.