The Vatican's orthodoxy office said the book, "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics" by Sister Margaret Farley, a member of the Sisters of Mercy religious order and emeritus professor of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, posed "grave harm" to the faithful.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said that in the 2006 book, Farley either ignored church teaching on core issues of human sexuality or treated it as merely one opinion among many.
Farley said today she never intended the book to reflect current official Catholic teaching. Rather, she said, she wrote it to explore sexuality via various religious traditions, theological resources and human experience.
The Farley critique, signed by the American head of the congregation, Cardinal William Levada, comes amid the Vatican's recent crackdown on the largest umbrella group of American sisters. The Vatican last month essentially imposed martial law on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, accusing it of undermining church teaching and imposing certain "radical feminist themes" that were incompatible with Catholicism.
It ordered a full-scale overhaul of the group and appointed three bishops to carry it out.
The crackdown on Farley, a top American theologian, will likely fuel greater resentment at Rome among more liberal-minded American sisters.
The Vatican examination of the book began in 2010 and involved seeking Farley's responses to its concerns.
After her replies failed to satisfy the Congregation, it moved to a full-fledged "examination in cases of urgency" that concluded Dec 14.
Pope Benedict XVI approved the decision last March and ordered the decision published.
In its statement, the Vatican singled out specific problems in Farley's book which it said "affirms positions that are in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching in the field of sexual morality."
Farley, for example, writes that masturbation doesn't raise any moral problems and can actually help relationships rather than hinder them.
The Vatican asserted that according to church teaching "masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action."
Farley wrote that homosexual people as well as their activities should be respected. Church teaching holds that gays should be respected but that homosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered."
Ok, so to get this straight (if you will pardon the term).
ReplyDeleteHomosexual acts are "intrinsically disordered.", but buggering choirboys is normal, just don't tell anyone.
"masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.", but self flagellation is normal and to be encouraged under the instruction for "mortification of the flesh"
I am glad that they cleared that up for me.
VADE RETRO, SATANA!
DeleteSatanists will agree with her.
ReplyDeleteSign of the end times.
Rainbows represent doors to hell, not heaven.
False prophets are doing everything they can to preach the santanist belief, "Do whatever you want", forget the consequences.
She wants to believe there are no serious reprecusions for accepting others lifestyles, blessing these acts is sinful in that the catholic satanist church is writing-off the lives of innocent children who are blinded by lucifers false light.
May God help her see the truth before it is too late.
VADE RETRO, SATANA!
ReplyDeleteWow Anonymous, where did you get that from.
ReplyDelete"Rainbows represent doors to hell, not heaven.", I am sure that you can quote scripture to support your statement, but I just can't find it anywhere.
I see that it was a covenant, and Ezekiel thinks that it is the likeness of the glory of Lord.
"Like the appearance of a RAINBOW in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord . . . " (Ezekiel 1:26-28)"
But maybe you can put me right.
"the catholic satanist church is writing-off the lives of innocent children who are blinded by lucifers false light.", but they belong the "Holy Roman Catholic Church", so they will be doing God's work then.