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How well I remember the distorted teaching of many clergy prior to our marriage. Then as now, people believe that a couple who doesn't want children "right a way" can use birth control without sin...
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This is a very timely article, Mr. Bonagura, and my only quibble is you place the responsibility of teaching this on the shoulders of your "theology professor". The reason Catholic education has...
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God said it through Jeremiah a long time ago:"The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to...
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Someone better block Prof. Bonagura from speaking! He said ''heresy', the only unpardonable sin for New Catholics. - Augustine Thomas
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This theological error must be the genesis of the "principle of totality," which says that each and every conjugal act doesn't have to be open to life as long as the couple intends to welcome children...
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The wedge of moral relativism, the fundamental option, has contributed to the contraceptive mentality that permeates Catholic marriages, singles, the priesthood, religious life and Catholic education....
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What a fine and timely essay! One might ask, what good is the fundamental option for the playwright, the poet, the novelist, the reader who agrees with T.S. Eliot that we become individuals only in (or...
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If there were a Theological Products Safety Commission (TPSC), it would issue a recall of the Fundamental Option theory, on the grounds that it is soul-endangering. - Charles E Flynn
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to LAM: I said as much to a priest in confession (he is now a bishop). My argument was that I was ticked that the bishop had demanded all volunteers in the diocese to fill out a background check and...
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Mr. Bonagura, the following question is absolutely crucial: "What benefit does the teacher gain by proffering a bogus path to salvation? Surely he knows that he himself will not be the arbiter of his...
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There seems to be a presumption from commenters that an individual when he is alone with God, in his/her dark moment of mortal sin, won't ask for forgiveness and seek out confession so as to be right...
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@Patrick Sheahan, what actual basis do you have for your uncharitable sense that most commenters here would prefer condemnation for "those of us who can admit that we are sinners"? The point of...
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Patrick Sheahan - no strawman tactics please. Simply stay on the topic, if you have an opinion about it. - Chris in Maryland
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My understanding of the fundamental option theory is that it minimizes people's awareness of mortal sin and the danger it poses to their souls. And it should be a prolonged pattern of sinful behaviour....
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Starting with the first comment by Kay, I would like to remind all that postponing children is not in se immoral (i.e. a mortal sin). See Pius XII's allocution to midwives of September 1951. Likewise,...
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Cardinal Schönborn's wisdom can enrich this discussion. In 2009 Cardinal Schönborn said, "frightened of the press and of being misunderstood by the faithful," Bishops distanced themselves from the...
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In 1990 the Philippine Bishops issued an apology to the nation's Catholics for having failed to encourage their flock to adhere to Humanae Vitae. They wrote: "Afflicted with doubts about alternatives...
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