Warning that marriage, family, and gender are being “reinvented and distorted,” U.S. Catholic priests are expressing their “total acceptance” of the Church’s teaching against contraception and urging fellow clerics to join them.
This year is the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical reaffirming Catholic teaching against artificial contraception. The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy’s U.S. chapter has united in support of the landmark encyclical that defied the sexual revolution and articulated natural law.
“Since 1968, dissent from this official teaching among some theologians and non-adherence among many people have precipitated the dire predictions of the pope that promiscuity, pornography, divorce, remarriage, artificial conception and unnatural intercourse, would proliferate,” the priests explain on LifePetitions, LifeSiteNews’ petition platform for pro-life and pro-family activists. So far, their appeal has 47 signatories.
Many priests openly rebelled against Humanae Vitae when it was released. Clerical opposition to the Church’s prohibition of contraception, which festered quietly and seemed to dim during the pontificates of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, has resurged under Pope Francis. A new member of the overhauled Pontifical Academy for Life Father Maurizio Chiodi, has even used Amoris Laetitia to argue that some circumstances “require” contraception.
“Contraception has infected society with a culture of death that sees abortion not as the murder of innocent unborn, rather as a mere personal choice,” the American priests write. “We recommit ourselves to defending Humanae Vitae as it is based on the immutable Natural Moral Law and the Magisterium of the Church.”
In June, nearly 500 British priests issued a similar statement upholding Catholic doctrine against contraception, saying what it offers is “key to the healing and true development of our society.”
Full story at LifeSiteNews.
This is another Church teaching that Fr. James Martin has never challenged and never will. There are quite a few of those, in fact.
“This is another Church teaching that Fr. James Martin has never challenged and never will. There are quite a few of those, in fact.”
With all due respect, why would he? He doesn’t have to because his agenda involves sexual intimacy that is incapable of procreation. It is kind of hypocritical of him not to, though, because he is making a distinction between some persons who enjoy sex without the possibility of procreation and those that cannot. An orgasm, according to his line of thinking, is validation of sincere and genuine commitment to love and partnership, sterile or not. Why would he deny that to heterosexual couples?
I think it’s pretty well-known that when Fr. Martin says he has not challenged a church teaching and never will, that’s his code for he personally disagrees with the teaching but won’t say so publicly so he can continue to be a priest in good standing. I fully agree with the poster who thinks that just as Fr. Martin obviously disagrees with church teaching about homosexuality and marriage, although he will only imply that (aka not challenge it), he also disagrees with church teaching about contraception.
This is a sin against the 8th Commandment.
By the eighth commandment we are commanded to speak the truth in all things, but especially in what concerns the good name and honor of others.
The eighth commandment forbids lies, rash judgment, detraction, calumny, and the telling of secrets we are bound to keep.
Baltimore Catechism 265, 266
James Martin is #fakefaith, #fakeGospel, #faketheology,
but #realJesuit
Chardin .. Have you read “Building a Bridge?” As opposed to an alt-right misinterpetation of it? He doesn’t say what you say he says at all.
One would hope that after 50 years of dissenting, clergy and lay people could see the truth of Humanae Vitae. Sadly, many cling to their sin and endorsement of sin. The wisdom of HV is something to embrace, just as the return of prodigals is worthy of celebration. Pray there will be many who finally accept this vital Church encyclical.
This is where much of the disintegration of today’s institutional Catholic Church began–with disobedience to Humanae Vitae. Once a “right to privacy” mentality is embraced by a person, and once that is linked to modern notions of “conscience” (see most anything by the dopey seamless garment crowd, including today’s Cardinal Cupich and Bishop McElroy, among many others), the person is virtually insulated from the will of God. Remember what we say in the Lord’s Prayer, “. . . Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven. . .”
We must know who we are, where we fit within God’s plans, and what we must do to live within God’s commandments and laws. If you say this today, you will be (at least) laughed at,…