Notre Dame Prof: “The immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.”

[Fiasco]

By the way, what exactly is an endowed chair in philosophy? One paid for by Planned Parenthood?

Cant answer that; but the current occupant doesnt seem to be over-endowed.
His surname describes what hes doing to the Churchs** INFALLIBLE **teachings on Faith and Morals.

 

[George_Stegmeir]

What I would like to know, is where the H**l is Notre Dame’s Board of Regents and the local Bishop in all of this? What this man is spouting is Heresy, pure and simple, and coming from a so called Catholic University it is an abomination.
I wish one of the American Cardinals would lean on the Head of the Jesuit order for the Jesuit Province for that area and have him order Notre Dames president, who is a Jesuit, to take action against this professor.
Obviously this professor thinks he is dealing with the Episcopal, instead of the Catholic Church.

 

[manualman]

ND was established by the Holy Cross fathers IIRC, not the Jesuits. This is why the local bishop has limited sway other than the nuclear option of stripping them of their catholic identity.

The question remains valid though. Why is the leadership so flacid?

 

[Charlemagne_II]

manualman

**The question remains valid though. Why is the leadership so flacid? **

Point well taken. The Church does move slowly. Perhaps they are hoping to turn ND around sooner or later to restore its Catholic identity. If that identity is stripped now, is there a chance of ever turning it around?

What should happen, however, is that the Religious Order that controls ND should be considered to have betrayed its trust, and action taken accordingly by both the local bishop and the Vatican.

Let the pundits make hay with that if they like. The Catholic Church nor its its representative institution should ever be regarded as an arm of the Obama Administration or the Democratic Party or Planned Parenthood.

 

[joannd]

I dont live in the diocese, but I’ve written to Bishop D’Arcy before. I think it doesnt matter where you live, you can still make your voice heard. E-mail the diocese.

 

[danserr]

Notre Dame Prof: “The immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.”

A philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame has declared in the* New York Times *that the bishops no longer decide morality in the Church and that “the immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.”
Gary Gutting, Endowed Chair in Philosophy, argued that the will of many Catholics who choose to use contraceptives is paramount to the teaching of the bishops.
…haven’t the members of the Catholic Church recognized their bishops as having full and sole authority to determine the teachings of the Church? By no means. There was, perhaps, a time when the vast majority of Catholics accepted the bishops as having an absolute right to define theological and ethical doctrines. Those days, if they ever existed, are long gone. Most Catholics — meaning, to be more precise, people who were raised Catholic or converted as adults and continue to take church teachings and practices seriously — now reserve the right to reject doctrines insisted on by their bishops and to interpret in their own way the doctrines that they do accept. This is above all true in matters of sexual morality, especially birth control, where the majority of Catholics have concluded that the teachings of the bishops do not apply to them. Such “reservations” are an essential constraint on the authority of the bishops.

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The Catholic philosopher Alexander Pruss has a reply to Gutting here.

alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/search?q=gutting