under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic
By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136
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Church Teaching on Divorce, Contraception and Human SexualityI. Discourse of Pope John Paul on DivorceThis is the text of the Pope's discourse on divorce to the Roman Rota, the Church's highest legal tribunal, on 28th January 2002. more II. Press Release of President of St Thomas More Society, SydneyPress release of John McCarthy QC commenting on the Pope's Discourse. more III. Commentary on John McCarthy's Press ReleaseThe Pope gave specific moral direction obliging lawyers to make a particular judgement of conscience about every matter involving divorce. His authority is universal. The St Thomas More Society through its President, John McCarthy, interfered with that authority. Indeed, its action was a gross and peremptory interference in the personal spiritual life of every legal professional. more IV. Humanae Vitae Forty Years OnThere is so much the Pope could say over the failure of the world to heed Paul VI's teaching in this cardinal encyclical. more V. The Truth and Meaning of Human SexualityIn November 1995, with the blessing of Pope John Paul, the Pontifical Council for the Family published this document to assist Catholic families with the critical issue of the formation of children in human sexuality. It has been almost universally ignored, especially by our bishops and priests who think nothing of endorsing the promulgation of secular humanist 'sex education' in our so-called 'Catholic' schools. We recommend Catholic parents to download the document, to study it closely and to implement its directions in their own families. more (pdf version only) VI. Mercy & the Death of John the BaptistThe beheading of John the Baptist brings a timely reminder of the immutability of Catholic doctrine. Here, we address an aberration in papal teaching which has led to the current dalliance with heresy over divorce. more VII. The Misguided Fr Emmet CostelloA recent biography of the eminent Australian barrister T E F Hughes QC reveals an erroneous assessment of the Church’s moral teaching by the late Fr Emmet Costello SJ. Lest that assessment should mislead members of Christ’s Church, we have hastened to expose its errors. more VIII. Devastation of the Church's Teaching on Marriage & SexualityCommentator Don Pietro Leone has performed a singular service for Christ’s Church in publishing, on rorate-caeli, an analysis of the degradation that has befallen the Church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality at the hands of popes and bishops over the last 60 years. There are five sections : the references are as follows : http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-1.html#more http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-2.html#more http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-3-and.html#more http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-evils-of-amoris-laetitia-church-and.html#more http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-5.html#more There are one or two inaccuracies which do not disturb the trust. The Master General of the Dominican Order referred to at the time of the debating of the issues was not Fr Michael Browne (who was not, in any event, created a Cardinal until 1971), but Fr Aniceto Fernandez. Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae did not precede, but followed, Gaudium et Spes, whose alteration of the Church’s constant teaching on the end of marriage to accommodate the Protestant view he adopted. The reader should note carefully Don Leone’s reference in the text to the critical issue of finality, and the systematic failure of the Council’s bishops, as of the popes and heads of Vatican dicasteries thereafter, to advert to it. This failure, which as Don Leone rightly says, demonstrates aversion to scholastic thinking (read “thinking grounded in the philosophy of St Thomas”) justifies the contention that the Second Vatican Council was not an ecumenical, or general, council of the Catholic Church. Don Leone puts the issue in a nutshell : “The end, or finality, of a thing determines its nature”. We recommend the paper in all its parts for our readers’ close attention. For those who wish to read it at one sitting, we have reproduced it here. IX. The Stupidity of Voting on 'Gay Marriage'What marriage is, its essence, is of nature, not of human will. It follows that no matter what men may think, they can’t alter it. more X. The Betrayal of Marriage by Australia's Catholic Bishops & Mr Turnbull's PlebisciteThe ideological circus surrounding attempts to modify the reality of marriage by altering Australian law to “redefine” it to include the “marriage of homosexuals” is in full swing. We are to vote on the issue, for heaven’s sake ! An understanding of what is at stake has been comprehensively obscured by the neglect and irresponsibility of Australia’s Catholic bishops. more XI. The Bishops & MarriageWe reproduce here a copy of an extract from Don Pietro Leone’s The Family Under Attack which lists the causes that have left us with such ineffectual bishops. more XI. Moving Feedback from a “Gay” Reader
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