590 scholars release statement upholding Church teaching on contraception

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The signatories, who include the papal theologian, say the teaching set out in Humanae Vitae is in accord with the Bible and nature
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Nearly six hundred Catholic scholars, including the papal theologian, have signed a statement supporting the Church’s teaching on contraception.
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The statement, released yesterday by the Catholic University in America, affirms “that the Catholic Church’s teachings on the gift of sexuality, on marriage, and on contraception are true and defensible on many grounds, among them the truths of reason and revelation concerning the dignity of the human person.”
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catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/09/21/590-scholars-release-statement-upholding-church-teaching-on-contraception/
 
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I think the significance of the location is interesting. It was on the steps of Catholic University of America that liberal theologians staged a protest immediately after PP Paul VI released Humanae Vitae. The prophecies Paul VI made in the that encyclical are all coming true, but because people are blinded by their own pleasure-seeking, they refuse to acknowledge that he was right.
 
Windmill said:
I think the significance of the location is interesting. It was on the steps of Catholic University of America that liberal theologians staged a protest immediately after PP Paul VI released Humanae Vitae. The prophecies Paul VI made in the that encyclical are all coming true, but because people are blinded by their own pleasure-seeking, they refuse to acknowledge that he was right.
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This was the reaction:

"Within 24 hours, in an event unprecedented in the history of the Church, more than 200 dissenting theologians signed a full-page ad in The New York Times in protest. Not only did they declare their disagreement with encyclical’s teaching; they went one step further, far beyond their authority as theologians, and actually encouraged dissent among the lay faithful.

"They asserted the following: “Therefore, as Roman Catholic theologians, conscious of our duty and our limitations, we conclude that spouses may responsibly decide according to their conscience that artificial contraception in some circumstances is permissible and indeed necessary to preserve and foster the values and sacredness of marriage.”

Source: Regnum Christi

“… an event unprecedented in the history of the Church…”

Pope Paul VI warned everyone but the counter-preaching spread through our neighborhoods, TV, movies and the internet. Gradually. The poisoning was a slow process.

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Hatikvah said:
And yet many Catholics (or “Catholics”?) support abortion, gay marriage, and, yes, contraception.

The scholars, unfortunately, will not convince them. As Jesus said, “If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.” (Luke 16:31).
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So true, but many Catholics, including myself, have come around on this issue. We need more people to boldly speak the truth.

The significance of this statement being proclaimed by CAU is addressed in Fr. Peter Mitchell’s book, The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Institutions:
Fr. Peter Mitchell’s book, The Coup at Catholic details the dramatic events that took place at CUA, the nation’s flagship Catholic university, and the unfortunate precedent it set for other Catholic colleges in America during that time. However, in recent years, CUA has returned to its roots and re-strengthened its Catholic identity in many meaningful ways.
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“I grew up realizing that there was a lot of dissent in the way the Church’s teaching was taught at a lot of Catholic colleges,” Fr. Mitchell told the Newman Society. The book, he said, was an attempt to uncover that trail and discover what led to the overwhelming dissent still prevalent in so many of today’s Catholic colleges.
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From 1967 to 1969, a majority of CUA’s faculty in the School of Theology, led by theology professor Fr. Charles Curran, defied the bishops on the Board of Trustees and effectively wrested control of the prevailing theology at the University. Along with more than 500 theologians from around the country, Fr. Curran and faculty at CUA signed a statement of dissent on July 30, 1968, in which they decried the moral teaching of the Church in Humanae Vitae and urged the Catholic faithful that they were not obliged to follow it.
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The aftereffects of this dissent eventually disseminated throughout Catholic education and have presented a long road to recovery for Catholic identity in higher education, both Fr. Mitchell and Garvey attested.
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Around the same time, Catholic universities such as the University of Notre Dame, Boston College, Georgetown University, Fordham University and St. Louis University joined in the “Land O’Lakes Statement” in 1967. The presidents of these Catholic institutions declared their independence from Church authority under the guise of “academic freedom.” They attempted to distance themselves from any bishop or Church oversight and seek acceptance from their peers in mainstream higher education.
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Misunderstanding of Academic Freedom
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The events at CUA in the late 1960s seemed to have been the tipping point among many Catholic academics. A sense of clerical authority that ran through the University caused some academics to be fearful of genuine academic debate, said Fr. Mitchell. Any misunderstanding of academic freedom or Church teaching was certainly amplified by the outspoken theologians who “in the spirit of Vatican II” claimed to be above Church teaching, discarding it for what they felt were more relevant and modern approaches to the faith.
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cardinalnewmansociety.org/fidelitys-triumph-over-dissent-remembering-the-coup-at-catholic-university/
 
This started, I believe, after the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research issued THEIR findings:
In conclusion, there are no grounds, either from the Bible or from nature, to support current Catholic teaching according to which each and every act of sexual intercourse has a procreative significance and finality, and that consequently using “artificial” contraceptives for the purposes of family planning is always wrong, or “intrinsically wrong” (HV §14).
On the contrary, the choice to use contraceptives for either family planning or prophylactic purposes can be a responsible and ethical decision and even, at times, an ethical imperative.
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wijngaardsinstitute.com/statement-ethics-using-contraceptives/

So from there, it went to the group in the US and their support of Church teaching and from there it went to the group who took out the ad in the NYTimes.

It seems to be a hot topic these days! And with varying stances. Who’s next?
 
Hatikvah said:
And yet many Catholics (or “Catholics”?) support abortion, gay marriage, and, yes, contraception.
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Doesn’t matter…well it may matter to their souls. Our first Pope denied Christ three times. The Catholic Church that Jesus founded is perfect. Those within her…not so much (except of course Mother Mary). Indeed Jesus Christ and His Church are One and the Same. So these dissenters of the teachings of Jesus are looking to protestantism which is the separation of Jesus from His Church. The True personal relationship with Jesus that can only be found through the Sacraments and the Catholic Church ends up being a search for a personal Jesus. One that conforms to their ideologies. Or more simply my will not Thy Will.
Without the Church and her guidance, our relationship with Christ would be at the mercy of our imagination, our interpretations, our moods. - Pope Francis
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JimG said:
Dr. Janet Smith: Positive response to pro-Humanae Vitae “Affirmation” has “been stunning”
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Jesus’ Church is going to be just fine. From what I have read these liberal dissenters are of the age of the ‘spirit’ of Vatican II crowd. They were angry with God’s surprise that was Humanae Vitae and in this era of dissension against Christ’s Church saw an opportunity to promote their ideology emboldened with the thought they have the ‘world’ on their side. It is nothing new for the Church that Jesus founded, the Catholic Church.
 
ComplineSanFran said:
This started, I believe, after the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research issued THEIR findings:
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This group is so far detached from the Church, it really shouldn’t have any connection at all.

They support women’s ordination. They support gay marriage. And they even reject the philosophical underpinning of much of the Church’s moral arguments–natural law. This is a heretical group that should be given as much attention by the Church as Catholics for Choice, NETWORK, and Nuns on the Bus.
 
Suudy said:
This group is so far detached from the Church, it really shouldn’t have any connection at all.

They support women’s ordination. They support gay marriage. And they even reject the philosophical underpinning of much of the Church’s moral arguments–natural law. This is a heretical group that should be given as much attention by the Church as Catholics for Choice, NETWORK, and Nuns on the Bus.
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Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to research Humanae Vitae more thoroughly.

newadvent.org/library/docs_pa06hv.htm

youtube.com/watch?v=eAJexmBX5lI
 
For some reason, an article authored by a Lutheran was the first bombshell in my exploration of the contraception issue. I don’t know why, but it was. I think it’s because I had never heard any of it, ever, and was upset I hadn’t.

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