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To: Bai Mac.
This posting could cause scandal to readers who assume JPII's Theology of the Body condones divorce.

I didn't say that JPII's Theology of the Body condones divorce. But what I did imply is that JPII's Theology of the Body causes divorce because of its misrepresentation of traditional Catholic teaching on marriage. If one takes an encyclical like "Casti Connubii" by Pope Pius XI and compares it with post-Vatican II teachings on marriage, one sees that all the most fundamental teachings have been undermined in various ways.

If one's view of Catholic marriage comes from post-Vatican II sources, then your grasp of what Catholic marriage consists of will be so defective as to make it impossible even to know the Theology of the Body causes divorce, because you won't have any traditional Catholic teaching to compare it against.

15 posted on 06/07/2004 7:46:30 AM PDT by Maximilian
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To: Maximilian

No. I was a child during Vatican II. I knew nothing but what was taught to me and what I learned. There is no reason that anyone can misconstrue Catholic teaching on the subject unless deliberately LOOKING for ways to twist and shape their 'opinions' to that of the world's. My divorce even came after the 1983 changes in the Canon Law. I am not ignorant, and if I can read and find His Truth in our Church, so can anyone. Those who misconstrue are not seeking Truth, but a 'way out'.


60 posted on 06/13/2004 7:05:52 AM PDT by WICatholicDefender (Malachi 2, Mark 10, Matthew 5, Matthew 19, Luke 16:18 And... He is UNCHANGING, forever the Same!!)
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