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I have browsed a number of threads and I find them very informative. Thank you to everyone who offers their experience, knowledge and opinions. I have read more than once that the Church has not changed its teaching on moral issues. Yet in the theological literature there is some disagreement on this topic. Just to cite one example, here is a link to John Noonan’s paper for which appeared in Theological Studies under the auspices of The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Judge Noonan is a well known Catholic who was invited as an adviser to Vatican II. He states in this paper that the Church has changed its moral position on four things, which he goes into in some detail: Usury, Marriage, Slavery and Religious Freedom. He sees these things as being on four different axes of human moral code.
Maybe someone here can clear this up for me. On the one hand, I hear people insisting that the Church’s moral stand is immutable, while on the other I read a respected Catholic theologian stating that the Church revises its moral positions as it grows in knowledge about a topic, and as social and economic conditions change.
Here is a link to Judge Noonan’s artical in PDF format:
ts.mu.edu/content/54/54.4/54.4.3.pdf
Maybe someone here can clear this up for me. On the one hand, I hear people insisting that the Church’s moral stand is immutable, while on the other I read a respected Catholic theologian stating that the Church revises its moral positions as it grows in knowledge about a topic, and as social and economic conditions change.
Here is a link to Judge Noonan’s artical in PDF format:
ts.mu.edu/content/54/54.4/54.4.3.pdf