NOVUS ORDO: Italian Bishops Want End Of “Humanae Vitae”
The newspaper of the Italian bishops’
Avvenire (January 28) featured a recent
lecture by Father Maurizio Chiodi in favour of artificial contraception.
The
introduction to the article draws a line from Paul VI to Francis and
calls this ambiguously a “development in fidelity” asking the question,
“Are natural methods really to be understood as the only means possible
for family planning?” There is little doubt that the answer is "yes".
For the Vaticanista Sandro Magister this means, “Goodbye, Humanae Vitae”.
In
many countries, especially of the West (Italy has the lowest birthrate
in the EU), there are virtually no young Catholic couples left who could
possibly prevent the birth of children. If the clerical Church
establishment had not lost their minds and were in keeping with the
times, they would tell Catholics to make babies, not to avoid them.
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