Posted on 06/16/2018 5:32:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, June 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Nearly 500 British priests have issued a statement upholding Humanae Vitae and proposing it as the key to healing society, amid reports of moves within the Vatican to water down its teaching and accommodate the Church to modern trends.
In a letter released to the Catholic press on June 14 (see full letter below), the group of priests from Great Britain state that the Church’s perennial teaching on human sexuality should be at the forefront in re-building a culture of life, and stress its importance for Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
The initiative, called “Humanae Vitae 50,” was set up as a call to priests to make their voices heard as the Church prepares to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on the regulation of births.
Promulgated on July 25, 1968 — amid the turmoil of the sexual revolution — Humanae Vitae “affirmed ... the purity and beauty of the spousal act, always open to procreation and always unitive” and rejected calls to allow artificial contraception in certain circumstances, the priests write.
They recall Humanae Vitae’s prophetic warning that a widespread acceptance of artificial contraception would lead to a loss in the “proper understanding of marriage, the family, the dignity of the child and of women and even a proper appreciation of our bodies and the gift of male and female.”
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Invariably liberals want the Church to change its teaching on birth control, marriage, and the body in general. A good sign there are 500 UK priests that dig it, I wonder what % are from third world nations originally.
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I did not know there were 50 priests who were still Catholic in the UK.
Bravo!
Let alone 500?
Ha. yeah.
St. John Paul 2’s “Theology of the Body” is mostly very helpful in this regard, imho. Upholding moral values was very important to JP2
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Good point! Always there’s a faithful, or faith- seeking remnant. (Actually, on the mouth isn’t exactly where the Baals were kissed. But I won’t go further). Smile smile
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