Vatican Scolds Nun for Book on Sexuality
Vatican Denounces Prominent Nun's Book on Sexuality
The church claims that Farley's views on masturbation, homosexuality present a "defective understanding" of Catholic theology.
Pope Benedict XVI approved the denouncement of the book and ordered it published
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A prominent American nun's bid to offer some "contemporary interpretations" of Catholic teaching on human sexuality isn't going over so well with the Vatican.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's official
orthodoxy office, issued a statement on Monday declaring that Sister
Margaret Farley’s book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, presents a "defective understanding" of Catholic theology and should not be used by Roman Catholics, the New York Times reports.
congregation : (1) 修會。詳見 congregations, religious 。 (2) 部:教廷所管轄的機構,如萬民福音部 Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples 。 (3) 會眾:參加敬禮的天主子民。
(4) 區會;地方教會。
Farley, an award-winning ethicist who taught Christian ethics at Yale
Divinity School, published the book in 2006, and it came under Vatican
investigation four years later. The church cites Farley's views of
masturbation as positive, homosexuality as respectable, and remarriage
after divorce as acceptable as proof that her book is irreconcilable
with Catholic teaching.
Despite the Vatican's opposition, more than a dozen theological
scholars, along with the largest nun’s organization in America, the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious, offered their support for
Farley and declared the Vatican’s accusations unjustified.
Just Love:
A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics
This
long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists
proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion
for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and
relationships. It begins with historical and crosscultural explorations,
and then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and
sexuality. Following this is a normative chapter that delineates the
justice framework for sexual ethics. Though the particular focus is
Christian sexual ethics, the framework is broad enough to have relevance
for multiple traditions of sexual ethics. The remaining chapters focus
on specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships,
marriage and family, divorce and second marriage, celibacy, and sex and
its negativities.
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