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To: WriteOn; sinkspur
Yes and Humane Vitae is reformable, too

No it isn't. Humane Vitae is an enshrining of unchangeable principles of the moral law, and is based upon Casti Connubii, in which Pope Pius XI defined infallibly against birth control. Please stop defaming Sinky and misrepresenting the teaching of the Church in this magnificent Encyclical:

56. Since, therefore, openly departing from the uninterrupted Christian tradition some recently have judged it possible solemnly to declare another doctrine regarding this question, the Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being defiled by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of her divine ambassadorship and through Our mouth proclaims anew: any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.

57. We admonish, therefore, priests who hear confessions and others who have the care of souls, in virtue of Our supreme authority and in Our solicitude for the salvation of souls, not to allow the faithful entrusted to them to err regarding this most grave law of God; much more, that they keep themselves immune from such false opinions, in no way conniving in them. If any confessor or pastor of souls, which may God forbid, lead the faithful entrusted to him into these errors or should at least confirm them by approval or by guilty silence, let him be mindful of the fact that he must render a strict account to God, the Supreme Judge, for the betrayal of his sacred trust ...

Reformable my foot!

48 posted on 06/30/2003 2:46:32 PM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker; sinkspur
I was being sarcastic, though it was lost on you.

As to disparaging stinky, he deserves it for preaching the benefits of a married priesthood in spite of the Pope.

If he's a deacon, he sure doesn't act like one.
60 posted on 07/01/2003 12:12:25 PM PDT by WriteOn
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