Thank you for those links. So, again, the Church is facing what it already faced in 1967 during the so-called Sexual Revolution. A time when preachers entered our neighborhoods and told us, "You know you want to have sex with your girlfriend." The impossibility of celibacy. Pope Paul VI had to publish Sacerdotalis Caelibatus in 1967. Why? Because some within the Church were saying celibacy was impossible. Then, in 1968, Humanae Vitae, on the regulation of birth. Why? Because total strangers were in our neighborhoods telling us immoral sexual activity was OK. Pope Paul VI had to remind the faithful of the Church's unchanged teaching: do not use artificial birth control, over the objections of his advisors who urged a loosening of restrictions. But within 24 hours after publication, an event occurred which was described as unprecedented in the history of the Church. Some Catholic theologians, going far beyond their authority, took out a full page ad in the New York Times to tell Catholics and all reading that artificial birth control can be used by married couples in some circumstances.
In the 1970s, as described by a religious, "Things went nuts in seminaries." Prospective priests were taught Humanae Vitae but they were also told a falsehood: that the Church would change her teaching about artificial birth control. What happened? When they became priests and parishioners asked about it, they told them it was a "personal conscience matter." Later, a pledge was introduced, and priests were required to give their assent to Humanae Vitae:
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/librar ... edge-12079And again, the very predictable secular media, in its constant obsession which started after the Sexual Revolution is quoting certain people in the Church to promote what it, not God, wants: a deformed Church because it's too hard to live a life that was lived. By standards that were followed. Of course, not by all, but more in conformance to the spirit and letter of the law. In the 1950s, the average number of kids was 2 not 10. And how was that possible? Where man fails, the grace of God provides.
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