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A game changer…
In high school and college, I would have accepted the slur (or praise, as it was then) of being a devotee of liberation theology. I read fairly extensively in the field, and “lived out” what was taken to be its … Continue reading
Orders are, we don’t need to take this seriously…
…since it was published by the National Catholic Reporter. Call me old-fashioned, but I’m no fan of the genetic fallacy. Cardinal Schönborn: Pope Francis has already changed church by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt | Feb. 7, 2014 … Francis spoke of his … Continue reading
Tollete et legete…
1) Fr. Hunwicke, Modestinus informs, “has begun a series of posts on the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate and the so-called ‘Two Covenant Theory’: the first, for the Jews (which is still intact), and the second, for everyone else.” Fine … Continue reading
Get with the program, loosey-goosey…
“2 Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. 3 For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they … Continue reading
So I started a page at Facebook…
It’s called “The Para-Marriage Slippery Slope Straw Man Dossier” and is a “documentary dossier for evidence that endorsing one form of ‘non-traditional marriage’ logically and pragmatically leads to all other forms.” The idea is that proponents of monogamous heterosexual families … Continue reading
“Why gay marriage is a very bad idea”
Brendan O’Neill, spiked.com: Self-selected gay spokespeople present this effort as the logical conclusion to their 60-odd years of campaigning for equality, overlooking the fact that a great many gay activists once saw marriage and the family as problems, and demanded … Continue reading
“Some reflections on the push for gay marriage”
BeingCatholic.com: If love were the only criteria for a marriage, then we would allow almost every conceivable type of relationship to be recognised as a marriage. Also, the idea that the legal definition of marriage, meaning the social significance a … Continue reading
“Understanding the economic justice of marriage”
Richard Aleman, Marriage Matters: The civil institution of marriage primarily serves the well-being of children and affirms the optimal setting for their development. This, in turn, helps protect and nurture the next generation and the good of society. … Just … Continue reading
“Considerations Regarding Proposals To Give Legal Recognition To Unions Between Homosexual Persons” – Vatican, CDF, 2003
The Church’s teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between … Continue reading
“The Catholic Church, Homosexuality and Gay Marriage”
AmericanCatholic.com: “What are called ‘homosexual unions,’ because they do not express full human complementarity and because they are inherently nonprocreative, cannot be given the status of marriage”. … “The denial of the social and legal status of marriage to forms … Continue reading
Gay Marriage | Catholic Answers
http://www.catholic.com/documents/gay-marriage “Men need to be civilized, to be taught the joys of committed sex, and that lesson is taught by marriage to women, not by other men who need to learn it themselves.”
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Tagged anthropology, homosexuality, marriage, morality, the common good, theology of the body
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