\nLast week there was a humorous exchange at the Bishop’s meeting over
\nan apparent typo in the draft of Faithful Citizenship where it said
\n“end
\nmarriage” instead of “defend marriage.”<\/p>\n
Though sometimes you have wonder. Last week Leon Suprenant The book that is recommended is reviewed on the bishop’s site and says.<\/p>\n Several points may disturb some Gee how could basically saying that if you One Amazon reviewer noted about this book The comment section of the original post In a Regarding our recent post on the U.S. \ufffdThanks for directing me to the long analysis of the works of the Another reader contacted the USCCB about the problematic site and \ufffdDr. Gaillardetz is a well-known and respected Catholic theologian who Despite this disappointing response, we have good reason to believe I hope he is right, but I am not exactly Last week there was a humorous exchange at the Bishop’s meeting over an apparent typo in the draft of Faithful Citizenship where it said “end marriage” instead of “defend marriage.”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nabout the use of a book<\/a> by a dissident theologian being
\nrecommended by the USCCB’s marriage website at
\nwww.foryourmarriage.com. A Daring Promise: A Spirituality of
\nMarriage By Richard R. Gaillardetz is promoted
\nthe book of the month<\/a>. Gaillardetz is your typical dissident
\ntheologian and Charles Curran admirer who apparently supports
\nhomosexual
\nacts, women’s ordination, has a quite flawed view of the
\nstructure of the early Church and a narrow view on papal infallibility
\nand the magisterium (though an expansive one on the sensus fidelium).<\/p>\n
\nreaders. draws upon Pope
\nJohn Paul II’s theology of the body yet offers gentle criticism. After
\nadmonishing couples to embrace church teaching on family planning
\nthrough sound understanding and surrender to the rigorous demands of
\nChristianity, he notes that a couple who still “cannot discover in
\n(magisterial teaching) God’s will” can follow their consciences. While
\nhe says most “domestic churches” are constituted by marriage and
\ninclude children, he includes under that term other households.<\/p>\n
\ndon’t want to follow the Church’s teaching on the grave sin of
\ncontraception you just follow your badly formed conscience be
\nsomething to “disturb some readers?” Well I guess if you just
\nhappen to be faithful to Church teaching and truth. Forget
\nabout those “rigorous demands of Christianity” and for example “picking
\nup your cross daily.” If only Gaillardetz had been there for
\nOnan to explain to God how Onan’s was just following his conscience.<\/p>\n
\n“He comments on how he ran into a former classmate who was brilliant in
\ncollege and now she was married with kids and he couldn’t help but feel
\nsorry that she “sold out” and stopped using her God given mind.”<\/p>\n
\nhas some detailed critiques of the writings of
\nR. Gaillardetz<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\npost by Leon Suprenant<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nBishops\ufffd new \ufffdFor Your Marriage\ufffd website, we received the following
\ncomment from marriage and family expert John F. Kippley regarding the
\nsite\ufffds recommendation of the work of Dr. Richard Gaillardetz:<\/p>\n
\ndissenting theologian, Dr. Richard Gaillardetz. It
\nappears that what he is doing is simply a repeat of what Fr. Curran and
\nothers did in the Sixties . . . I thought the bishops were beyond that
\nstuff. . . . It is just crazy that the bishops would even mention works
\nby someone like Gaillardetz. . . .\ufffd <\/p>\n
\nreceived this response:<\/p>\n
\nholds the chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo. He has
\nbeen a guest presenter at a meeting of the Bishops\ufffd Committee on
\nMarriage and Family. I don\ufffdt know if you\ufffdve read \ufffdA Daring Promise,\ufffd
\nbut it presents a realistic\ufffdand hopeful\ufffdvision of married life in a way
\nthat is accessible to average Catholics. It is an important book in its
\nfield. I think our reviewer did justice to the book by identifying its
\nstrengths as well as noting what might be disturbing.\ufffd<\/p>\n
\nthat the shortcomings of the site are being addressed at this time, and
\nwe\ufffdll keep our readers posted regarding further developments.<\/p>\n
\nencouraged by the response. When you say dissenting from the
\nmagisterium “might be disturbing” instead of saying that it is flat out wrong you are not exactly making your case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"