[Magdalen] Chittister column

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

This article is a nice discussion of how in fact the Church almost approved
jettisoning birth control constraints.  Had John XXIII not died, things may
have been different.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/04/catholic-church-vatican-bishops-birth-control/

In one of his books, Fr. Andrew Greeley dramatizes the commission by having
his fictional married couple participate in the commission (patterned after
the real American couple who participated and brought mounds of evidence
for why the Church needed to end its ban on birth control. When the Papal
commission gave its report in favor of ending prohibition of birth control,
35 of the 40 active members favored the report. It was kind of
overwhelming; the faithful assumed it was a done deal; many spontaneously
stopped using birth control. Then, as we know, Humanae vitae came out, and
every single index of church health has been pretty much in free fall ever
since.
Three bishops secretly went to the Pope and told him if he went along, it
would erode the authority of the Church; they didn't count of the
destruction of confidence in the integrity of the Church.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm sure she does, Judy, and I imagine she shakes her head over it. She
> was the first Roman Catholic I heard making the statement that many people
> who call themselves "pro life" are merely "pro birth," because they have no
> concern for the children or programs to support them or the mothers once
> they're born.
>
> > On Jun 6, 2017, at 7:21 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I love Joan Chittester.  I do wonder if she realizes how much support
> Trump
> > received from anti abortionists Roman Catholics.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:23 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I really needed that Dorothy Day quote.
> >>
> >> And the POWERFUL poem obliquely alluded to:
> >>
> >> http://www.cbsd.org/cms/lib010/PA01916442/Centricity/Domain/2773/
> >> LetAmericabeAmericaagain.pdf
> >>
> >> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> >> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not
> preserved,
> >> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I can't seem to get a workable link to transfer, but Joan Chittister's
> >>> column "Here I Stand" is especially good today. It's titled "Make
> America
> >>> America again. The general NCR link is ncr.org and from there you can
> >>> click on the column.
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
> > Western Michigan
>