The Politics of Sex and Religion: A Case History in the Development of Doctrine, 1962-1984 by Robert Blair Kaiser

Author:Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: church politics, the pill, growing up in the church, vatican ii, church future, church dogma, General, Religion, church councils, church history, church and sex, birth control, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Sex
ISBN: 9780934134163
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
Published: 1985-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

They have in fact been very hurt and have taken great offense at the fact that questions of the greatest importance for life have up until now been decided apparently without theological discussion and according to the opinions of one or two of the Holy Father’s private theologians or of a curial authority.

Dr. Görres talked about the sense of liberation felt by Catholic intellectuals: to think the pope would set up a commission! It was an admission, he said, “that neither the pope nor a curial authority can have a ready answer at hand on every occasion for every moral question. Areas of uncertainty and indecision exist also in the church of God.” (One of my Sunday night regulars, Gerard Van Velsen, bishop of Kroonstadt, South Africa, had told a small circle of guests during one of those recent Sunday nights that Holland’s tremendous housing shortage had helped push the discussion along faster there than in other places. “In Holland,” he said, “you may have an entire family of four or five persons living in two or three rooms. In this sense, I am amazed that the pope, who has several hundred rooms, has thought about the problem at all.”)

Görres shared what he, too, had been hearing, at professional gatherings, at conferences, in conversations with priests and laypeople:

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