Word: dubia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roman Catholics the world over found themselves in a somewhat ambiguous moral position while the re-examination went on; it is no secret that many confessors have given permission to penitents to practice birth control on the old principle that lex dubia non obligat - a doubtful law is not binding. Now Pope Paul has decided to remove the doubt by restating Roman Catholicism's traditional view that any artificial interference with procreation is sinful...
...theologians maintain that they are exactly right. Writing for the Toronto Globe & Mail, Augustinian Theologian Gregory Baum of the University of Toronto argues that since church leaders are themselves divided about contraception, lay Catholics are free to follow their own conscience on the matter, on the principle of Lex dubia non obligat (a doubtful law does not oblige). Father Baum, a peritus (adviser) at the Second Vatican Council, believes that condemnation of contraception is a matter of discipline that involves neither the church's infallibility nor divine revelation, and thus is subject to change. Although Pope Paul urged Catholics...
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