Posted on 02/18/2016 12:27:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pope Francis has suggested it is acceptable to use artificial contraception methods in countries affected by the Zika virus.
"Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil," he told reporters en route to Rome following his five-day trip to Mexico.
He cited Pope Paul VI's decree in the 1960s that allowed nuns serving in Africa to use contraception due to the threat of rape.
He said, "In certain cases, as in this one, such as the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear."
But he maintained the church's stance against abortion calling it "an absolute evil".
CDC's advice
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised men who have been to an area with Zika virus to abstain from sex or use condoms. It added that men with pregnant partners should abstain or use condoms for the duration of her pregnancy.
Experts suspect Zika could cause microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with unusually small heads because the brain has not developed properly or has stopped growing.
(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...
Should we expect the Brazilian birth rate to go down for the next five years?
PopeyDopey strikes again!
He meant to say, “It is an (almost) absolute evil, except for when it is not.”/ rolling eyes on this pope
Until we have seen the full quotation in context and had competent people deal with the original language version of it, I think that your second paragraph is somewhat premature.
He may simply have been saying that women have good grounds to tell their husbands no for a very long time.
As to your third paragraph, I think that the Pope is a sucker for bad science, which puts him in the same category of 98% of the western world. Here is a good link on the Zika virus http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-hard-to-prove-zika-is-causing-birth-defects/
That said, he either is smart enough not to use, or not smart enough to use, the key portions of his teaching authority in spouting this stuff off. However, as most people don’t know the difference, it is dangerous.
Yes—and that it is off the cuff is the first clue. Until the advent of modern communication, off-the-cuff stuff didn’t travel around the world in hours.
One article today suggests that the Zika panic is being used (set up?) to let abortionists into South America, which is heavily Catholic and therefore anti-abortion (’except in the case of microcephaly’ — coincidentally). The pro-aborts want a nose under the tent to get in in any way they can.
And Infallible is an English translation of a Latin Term that has a technical meaning in theology. In this case, being a trained theologian and having some knowledge of Latin does actually matter. If a word has both a scientific meaning and a common meaning, insisting on using the common meaning when the context demands the scientific is not very logical.
Your vicar has made it clear in the past that he detests America and Americans such as I, a non-Roman Catholic Christian.
His language and meaning, most definitely, has been understood loudly and clearly by many FReepers over the course of time. Don’t need your delineation of what the definition of the word “is” is or what the man said in another tongue. But thanks for the thought.
Save your teaching for the pulpit, or whatever YOU call it.
Nevertheless, this is a huge problem.
So true. Planned Parenthood never saw a crisis they didn’t love...to promote their evil agenda.
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Funny, I thought we were talking about the word “Infallible”—perhaps I’ve spent to much time outside of the U.S. and have missed “is” as a new alternate spelling of the word.
For a nice critique of the press conference from a very solid Catholic source (he is on at least one Papal commission) check this out:
https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/seven-quick-thoughts-on-the-most-recent-papal-presser/
I teach in a classroom. If you want to pontificate on Catholic things and remain ignorant of what you pontificate on, be my guest. That is the benefit of belonging to a denomination that does not limit pontificating to the person of the pontiff under certain defined circumstances.
Papa is a little tired and isn’t himself right now. Or pretty much most of the time. So that papa can get his needed rest, please consult the Catechism of the Catholic Church for all your Catholic questions.
Thanks for understanding.
With time, this problem will take care of itself.
It’s very frustrating to me, wags. My own denomination is within a hair of tumbling off the homosexualism cliff in just a few months. I also admire yours and this teaching is one that I considered so insightful on how the moral dominoes tumbled after contraception became commonplace.
It’s just frustrating seeing things that you treasure being corrupted by those with no vision.
No professor; you are mistaken again. YOU were rambling about the word. Go away from me.
I guess somebody else hijacked your account and posted using that word under your name in post 8 of this thread.
You’re also nuts, apparently.
What is next, Nuns opening a cathouse?
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