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…Manipulation [New York City: Seabury Press], 1975, pages 198 and 199. Father Häring is a longtime dissenter from Church teachings, but his quote shows that even many dissenters recognize the…
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…of Notre Dame spoke volumes. Most notably, he supported Notre Dame faculty members who dissented from Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae vitae, which repeated the constant Church teaching opposing contraception,…
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…Fathers could have easily rebuffed this pressure by simply reaffirming Church teaching. They could have reemphasized Church documents like the Charter of the Rights of the Family – still not…
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…can be more honest in their assessments of their own personal situations in light of the natural moral law and Church teaching. The Catholic Church does not simply make up…
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…The Third Prophecy Part VI: The Fourth Prophecy Part VII: Modernity’s Challenges to Humanae Vitae Part VIII: The Church’s Right to Teach on Birth Control Part IX: The Church’s Teaching…
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…when he repeatedly and emphatically reemphasized the Church’s teaching, despite the reality of widespread dissent from Church teaching. Herein we find one more proof of God’s providence operating through His…
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…Church’s salvific mission. This is encapsulated in the notion of the family as the “domestic church,” language that is traceable back to the earliest days of the Church. Speaking of…
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…Why Is the Church against Sex before Marriage? So, let us take up again the question of why the Church prohibits premarital sex. Why is premarital sex a sin? The…
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…Church prohibited persons who committed suicide funeral rites and even burial in a Church cemetery. There was, however, some consideration given to the person’s mental state at the time. That…
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…in his important encyclical Casti Connubii in 1930. See also the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the foundation of the Church’s teaching on marital unity (¶ 1643–1654). [13] Pope Pius…
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