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Pope Benedict receives an AC Milan football jersey from former captain Franco Baresi, left, during a celebration with candidates for Confirmation at San Siro stadium in Milan on Saturday. The pope has approved a decision that sharply criticizes a book on sexuality written by Sister Margaret Farley.
The Vatican on Monday sharply criticized a book on sexuality written by a prominent American nun, saying it contradicted church teaching on issues like masturbation, homosexuality and marriage and that its author had a “defective understanding” of Catholic theology.
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 Monday 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. [more]
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Jesus didn’t focus focus on the lower chakras; he emphasized and focused on peoples’ hearts. I think I’ll go along with what Jesus taught and not the sexually-focused nut jobs in Rome.
Well, as this story:
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/excommunication-as-a-restorative-measure
, written by a faithful priest, makes clear, people like “Sister” Farley need to be excommunicated. And, all members of the Catholic Theological Society of America who support her, including Father William O’Neill, also need excommunication. As Father’s story makes clear, if the Church does nothing to such individuals, it gives the impression of acceptablity to what these people are saying / writing.
I wonder if the person(s) who condemned the book actually read it as they didn’t read the last book they condemned that was written by a nun.
Let’s read the book first then judge. That means I’m not taking the official Vatican view as gospel.
You should, though, Tom — it is only the Church’s Magesterial function that preserves the Truth — not the rambling, heretical writing of an errant “sister” such as Farley.
Taking your position, Tom, leades us to essentially the same place that “sister” Farley’s writings do: heresy.
Tom — if you go to this USCCB link:
http://www.usccb.org/news/2012/12-097.cfm, you’ll have all the information you need to know Farley’s book is heretical.
I guess the only sex that is allowed is between priests and little children. Once again when you don’t play the game you shouldn’t be able to make the rules. e.g. priests or nuns.
What a disgusting comment, Thomas. You should quit using a screen name of a holy man, because holy man you are not. You are offensive. No one is justifying pedophilia; but, the vast majority of priests never have offended anyone sexually. Let’s get a balanced view, not just a focus on the grave errors of a few.
Everyone has sexual feelings, so you have no way of knowing that “the vast majority of priests never have offended anyone sexually,” Jim. What we do know is from all the coverups that are being exposed now.
Oh Please — you are even more outrageous that Thomas. Truthfully, if you can’t see the problem with your comment, you are truly lost. You need a therapist who can help you think rationally.
I thought the role of a theologian, was to do theology, that is to try to expand and explain theological concepts and opinions in a new way. Sister, it seems to me was offering her theological work for further dialogue and development.
Too bad the boys in Rome are afraid of new thoughts and concepts to explain our theology.