In Mass homilies and conference speeches, in literature racks and glossy posters at the backs of sanctuaries, Roman Catholic leaders confidently proclaim the answers to questions of sex, marriage and family.They honor marriage as a divinely ordained sacrament, family as the core cell of civilization and as a church in miniature, raising new generations of faithful.
Sexual revolution? They respond with the "theology of the body" by the late pope, St. John Paul II, affirming marital sex as an icon of God’s love.
Birth control? Natural family planning, a combination of abstinence and timing sex according to the fertility cycle.
Divorce and remarriage? A tribunal that can sometimes annul previous marriages, opening sacraments to remarried persons otherwise barred from them.
Homosexuality? An “objectively disordered” inclination, according to Vatican teaching, but one able to be managed in celibacy.
But many aren’t listening.
More here-
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2014/10/05/Catholic-synod-to-address-questions-of-marriage-sexuality/stories/201410050062
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