Showing posts with label procreative ethic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label procreative ethic. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Response from a Reader re: Aquinas' Theology of Marriage

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One of my Facebook friends, Jean-François Garneau in Montréal, has responded to my recent posting  about how Adriano Oliva's book Amo...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Notes on Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — On Sexual Relations Between Women as Less Sinful Than Sodomy

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As a footnote to what I posted yesterday regarding Adriano Oliva's book Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples h...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Notes on Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Procreation in Aquinas' Theology of Marriage

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Back in January 2016, I shared with you some notes  about Adriano Oliva's book  Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

National Catholic Reporter Calls for Dialogue on Sexual Ethics: My Response

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My new denomination hosted the counter protest in C'ville; my old one is still complaining about women getting to use birth control...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Wijngaards Declaration: Catholic Scholars Respond to Humanae Vitae on Use of Contraception — Implications for Gay Catholics

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As the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic encyclical Humanae Vitae , which reiterated the Catholic magisterium's ban on the use...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

William Saletan on Amoris Laetitia As Closeted Argument for Gay Marriage: Growing Cracks in Foundation of Catholic Approach to Same-Sex Couples

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Another interesting piece of (non-insider) commentary on Amoris Laetitia  to which I want to point you today: William Saletan at Slat...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Pope Francis on Families and Their Gifts, John McNeill and Margaret Farley on Fruitfulness of Gay Relationships: Generativity Depends on Ecclesial and Social Support

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What Catholic theologian John McNeill is pointing to in the quotation I shared with you yesterday  is very much like what Catholic th...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Things I'm Reading at Week's End: Marriage, Bible, Catholics, Women's Rights, Recovering from Religious Trauma, Pope Francis and Women

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Things I'm reading as this week ends — these items all connected in that they talk about issues of religion in the public square:
Monday, November 3, 2014

Rusty Reno on Benefits for Spouses of Same-Sex Couples in Catholic Institutions as Concordat with Hitler: On Catholic Centrist Lionization of Douthat and Reno

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A few days back, I noted my bemusement that the movers and shakers of the American Catholic public conversation (in the media and t...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Let the Gays Marry, and Elderly Men Will Create Babies with Different Mothers

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Gay people should not be allowed the right of civil marriage because — get ready for it! — if the gays are allowed to marry, elderly m...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

A Reader Writes: "Married People Contribute Many Goods to Society in Addition to Procreating . . . and the Provision of These Goods Is Not Gender-Dependent"

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Yesterday , I blogged about the story of Father James Melnick, who was removed from ministry in my home state of Arkansas this past w...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

More Head Scratchers about Gay Marriage from Catholic Right: "God Rejoices in Everything That a Married Man and Woman Do." But the Gays? Hateful and Violent

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In a previous posting today , I asked how right-wing Catholics justify exorcism ceremonies aimed at those who are gay on the ground tha...

In Defense of Paprocki's Exorcism Show: A Consideration of the Argument that Gay Marriage Multiplies Gravely Sinful Acts

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This horse is dead, but I might as well beat it one more time: at the Commonweal  blog's discussion of the Paprocki exorcism show...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Friday Religion News: Men, Women, Gays, Bishops (and Money, Limousines, and Cigars)

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As the work week ends, here's a selection of religion-focused commentary that has caught my eye during the week--teasers leading ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Now Delaware, Followed by Minnesota? Commentary by Minnesota Catholic Law Professor on His Changed Mind

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As Delaware permits marriage equality on the heels of Rhode Island and Minnesota prepares to vote, I'm struck by Charles J. Reid...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Mark Regnerus's New Study of "Gay" Parenting and Ross Douthat on Gay Marriage and Severing Marriage from Procreation

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As he comments on Mark Regnerus's badly conceived and badly executed recent study of "gay" parenting, which isn't act...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Every Sperm Sacred, Every Ovum Holy: A Primer on "Catholic" Sexual Ethics for Non-Catholic Readers

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A brief postcript to what I just wrote about the Catholic bishops, the Republicans, and making Martha jump: as I just said, 
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

New Scientific Findings Confirm Catholic Magisterial Teachings about Sex? Semen as "Better Gift Than Chocolate" for Women

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This is one of the crazy corners of American scientific research about which I'll freely admit I know next to nothing.  I first becam...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Pope Announces that Gay Marriage "Penalizes" Traditional Marriage

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And the attack on same-sex marriage (and on gay and lesbian human beings) continues, with top members of the Catholic hierarchy: a Catholi...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

My Real Rights Trump Your Alleged Rights: Catholic Officials Keep Appealing to Religious Freedom While Urging Discrimination

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In several postings as the new year began, I predicted that we'd see much more of what I regard as a subject-changing rhetorical ploy ...