the lack of suspense is killing us
By Diogenes ( articles ) | Aug 10, 2006
"The element of surprise may be missing," the Catholic Theological Society of America admits, from the announcement naming Sister Sandra Schneiders as the recipient of this year's John Courtney Murray award.
True, it's no surprise that the CTSA would honor a woman known for "feminist hermeneutics," who is "unflinching in her pursuit of truth and passionately committed to the reform of the Church and the pursuit of justice—especially justice for women-- in both Church and world. "
It may be just a little bit over the top to compare her with St. Catherine of Siena, but CTSA is very excited about someone who can bring solace to the troubled souls-- and there are many of them, no doubt, pensively stirring Manhattans at the cocktail parties during CTSA conventions-- who "have been tempted to dismiss the Bible as hopelessly patriarchal."
In case you were wondering, past recipients of the John Courtney Murray award include Charles Curran, Richard McBrien, Monika Hellwig, Gregory Baum, and Elizabeth Johnson. So when one more dissident takes the prize… Well, they're right. The element of suspense is missing.
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Posted by: Duns Scotus -
Dec. 02, 2010 10:13 PM ET USA
1)XI, not VI. 2)Pius reinterated an infailable teaching of the universal ordinary magisterium; he did not give a dogmatic DEFINITION. 3)The teaching has been reiterated up to the present (though this includes the 1990's). 4)Pius reiterated a teaching about the inherent immorality of contraception; he did not merely reiterate a Church prohibition, such as the prohibition of married priests in the Latin Rite. 5) Lambeth '30 only tolerated contraception by married couples in very limited cases.
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Posted by: impossible -
Dec. 01, 2010 4:07 PM ET USA
Cornelius is the one who has nailed it. Infallibility is not limited to formal "Ex Cathedra" statements. Unless one wants to emulate the likes of Charles Curran and other dissenters, he regards Humanae Vitae as an infallibile statement. There are many references to articles of faithful orthodox authors who agree, one of which is by Father John Hardon available at http://www.catholic-pages.com/morality/hvinfallible.asp For numerous articles go to http://www.catholic-pages.com/dir/humanae_vitae.asphttp://www.catholic-pages.com/dir/humanae_vitae.asp
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Posted by: AgnesDay -
Dec. 01, 2010 3:37 PM ET USA
So, where's the answer key?
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Posted by: -
Dec. 01, 2010 7:23 AM ET USA
Not to go off-thread, but I believe John Paul II, in Evangelium Vitae (EV), declared the "direct and voluntary" killing of innocent persons to be gravely immoral, and that this teaching may be regarded as infallible by virtue of the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium, which he invoked. See EV #57.
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Posted by: -
Nov. 30, 2010 8:38 PM ET USA
I think DCpa nailed the third error, regarding the infallibility claim. It is my understanding that all "infallible" teachings thus far have regarded Doctrine, but we have not yet received one regarding Morals, officially.
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Posted by: DCpa -
Nov. 30, 2010 6:23 PM ET USA
Pius VI died in 1799. The Anglican church never had a formal condemnation of contraception – they simply held the common negative opinion of all groups in Christendom regarding it up to that time. They did not rescind a prohibition, but rather countenanced limited acceptability for married couples in certain circumstances. The Pope in 1930 issued an encyclical, not an infallible "declaration." Although it remained the constant teaching of the Magisterium, no declaration by any Pope reaffirmed it
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Posted by: AgnesDay -
Nov. 30, 2010 6:08 PM ET USA
Well, let's see. Not Pius VI, Pius XI. Not into the 1990's. The Twenty first century. But I guess I'm fogging up. What else is wrong? I dunno. The Lambuth Council resolution 15 regarding contraception was in 1930.
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Posted by: Saint Jimbob of the Apokalypse -
Nov. 30, 2010 2:28 PM ET USA
Pope Pius XI did write Casti Connubii in 1930, so he's off by V Piuses (Piusi?), and the whole 'well into the 1990s' nonsense.
