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In 1951, a French priest named Marc Oraison was awarded the highest possible mark at Paris' Institut Catholique for a doctoral thesis entitled Christian Life and Problems of Sexuality. After it was published as a book, Abbe Oraison was summoned to the Holy Office at the Vatican, where, he...
The Second Vatican Council has since abolished the index, but that does not mean the hierarchy has stopped discouraging books it does not like, especially those written by priests. Though the Holy Office has been renamed Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, conservative Cardinal Ottaviani remains in command, and...
Oraison's latest tangle with the Vatican is over The Human Mystery of Sexuality, a current French bestseller which carries a bishop's imprimatur. The 158-page book focuses on what Oraison terms "the primordial importance" of sexuality to identity, ridicules moralistic language that censures erotic thoughts as...
Sharp Criticism. A tougher action was taken against California's Father William DuBay, 31, the angry curate who in 1964 called on the Pope to remove Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal McIntyre (DuBay felt the cardinal was not sufficiently active in civil rights drives). Transferred five times and...
The change is affecting many other Catholic lay groups. A year ago, Boston's Catholic community noted with interest that Cardinal Gushing gave permission for a parish Holy Name Society to have a non-Catholic speaker on religious matters. Now no permission at all is needed for Boston Catholic...