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...reporters looking for a conservative Catholic voice sought out Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the journal First Things; for a more liberal take they called America's then editor Fr. Thomas Reese. But Neuhaus passed away and Reese (who remains a brilliant analyst) was controversially fired by the Pope. Since then Martin, America's culture editor, has out-outreached them both in their primes. (See people finding God on YouTube...
...apparently open about his limited knowledge of Catholic theology and moral doctrine—he even insists, awkwardly, on using “the” before the title of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, “Humanae Vitae.” Yet what should be a point of humility for this amateur scholar of comparative religion inexplicably gives him license to teach not only Pope Paul and the Boston College theologian whose recent lecture he mentions, but also St. Paul and St. Augustine a thing or two about the proper moral attitude toward...
...primary source for modern Catholic sexual ethics, Cahill cited the “Humanae Vitae,” an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI in 1968. Before this, argued Cahill, the Catholic perspective was indeed primarily that sex is solely for procreation. This encyclical, however, written on the issue of artificial birth control, modified this view. While Pope Paul affirmed that “every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life,” he also asserted the equally important function of sex as a tool to entrench...
Failing to legitimize the enjoyment one normally gets from sex (or, in the case of Paul and Augustine among numerous others, equating it to sin) has tremendous potential to alienate students of the faith. Although the Catechism cites a statement from Pope Pius XII that “spouses should experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit” through intercourse, the role of sexual pleasure in marriage has been hotly contested throughout the history of Catholic thought. The solution could therefore be less to emphasize the gravity of the sexual act than to ensure that students understand that...
Cahill discussed the issue of personal integrity, referring to Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.” For John Paul II, the purpose of sex was two-fold—to express permanent love and commitment, and to procreate, she added...