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  • [Catholic Caucus] Fornicating in Self-Defense

    08/22/2017 4:13:44 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | August 22, 2017 | Deacon Jim Russell
    When is fornication not really fornication?Well, if reports are accurate, according to Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, dubbed by some as Pope Francis’ “closest theological adviser,” if a sexually active, unmarried couple lives together, he says it is “licit to ask” whether such sexual activity “should always fall, in its integral meaning, within the negative precept of ‘fornication.’”I’ll go out on a moral-theological limb at this point—yes, Your Excellency. Yes, such sexual activity should indeed always fall within the negative precept of “fornication.”Ah, but I haven’t been patient enough to hear him out more fully. He has more to say....