Yet this strong and accurate viewpoint is CONTRARY to what is the Relatio document which is supported by the purported-homosexual Cardinal Wuerl.
There’s another thread that says the Bishops have done a 180 on this. I’ll get the link for you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3215365/posts
It was a 180-degree turn such as may never have been seen in so short a radius on Vatican soil.
Gradualism was something used by the missionaries to the Indians in what is now the US, but it was gradualism in the sense that they had to do certain basic things (give up polygamy, for example) if they wished to be baptized and then would live as catechumens for some time until it was decided that they understood the reasons for this, knew enough and were conformed enough to Christian moral teachings.
But there was always a goal, and the goal was not for the Church to accept the practice of the converts (such as polygamy) but for the converts to conform themselves to Christian morality and practice. In the meantime, they weren’t a full part of the community.