Tradition, Heresy and the Infallibility of the Universal Ordinary Magisterium

[YoungTradCath]

When the F.D.A. originally approved Enovid on 10 June 1957 for menstrual disorders, it was unclear if this medical innovation was morally licit for regulating the birth of children. Hence, the reason Blessed Pope John XXIII established the Pontifical Commission on Population, Family, and Birth-rate on 27 April 1963: to officially advise if oral progesterone pills fell within the prior moral parameters against artificial contraception.

Then that was simply a decision of whether or not these pills were in fact a contraceptive. This group did not thus “ban the pill,” they simply determined that the pill is a contraceptive, and the prior law against contraceptives is what thus illegalized the pill. The group did not make the pill illegal, nor did Vatican II, the prior law did.

 

[SanctusPeccator]

SanctusPeccator;9402998:

When the F.D.A. originally approved Enovid on 10 June 1957 for menstrual disorders, it was unclear if this medical innovation was morally licit for regulating the birth of children. Hence, the reason Blessed Pope John XXIII established the Pontifical Commission on Population, Family, and Birth-rate on 27 April 1963: to officially advise if oral progesterone pills fell within the prior moral parameters against artificial contraception.

Then that was simply a decision of whether or not these pills were in fact a contraceptive. This group did not thus “ban the pill,” they simply determined that the pill is a contraceptive, and the prior law against contraceptives is what thus illegalized the pill. The group did not make the pill illegal, nor did Vatican II, the prior law did.

Not so. It was Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical Letter [of 25 July 1968] on the Regulation of Birth Humanae vitae that formally pronounced the specific application of oral progesterone pills for regulating the birth of children was morally illicit.

 

[YoungTradCath]

Not so. It was Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical Letter [of 25 July 1968] on the Regulation of Birth Humanae vitae that formally pronounced the specific application of oral progesterone pills for regulating the birth of children was morally illicit.

K.

 

[Dom_Passeri]

Believe the original Greek is φαρμακεία (pharmakeia) in Galatians 5:20?

Can you repeat the question?

I’m sorry, I don’t know any greek (except Kyrie, basically).

 

[SanctusPeccator]

SanctusPeccator;9403004:

Believe the original Greek is φαρμακεία (pharmakeia) in Galatians

5:20?
Can you repeat the question?

I’m sorry, I don’t know any greek (except Kyrie, basically).

Force of habit, Dom Passeri. While the English translation of witchcraft/sorceries in Galatians 5:20 is from the Latin veneficia in the Neo-Vulgate, was always taught to consult the original Greek.

 

[sw85]

It’s probably going to be 2-3 generations before we have an understanding of Vatican II’s doctrinal teachings that are both clear and coherent and also consistent with earlier teachings. Probably none of us will live to see/hear/understand it.

My attitude is not to worry about it. The bulk of the potential problem areas of Vatican II aren’t things that intimately impact the life of the ordinary layman – ecclesiology, ecumenism, etc. I’m content to the let the eggheads work out the implementation details.