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den irländske teologen och augustinerbrodern Gabriel Daly har i ett tal inför medlemmar av We are Church på Irland kritiserat kyrkans officiella ståndpunkter angående preventivmedel, kvinnliga präster och homosexualitet. Några citat:
”They claim that because Paul VI in 1968 published an encyclical letter, Humanae Vitae, that renewed the ban on contraception, all his successors are bound by his teaching, because it is ’church teaching,’ and not even popes can touch it,” he said. ”This is nonsense, but few Catholics would be prepared to say so.”
”In my opinion there is no argument against female ordination that can be taken with theological seriousness,” he told his audience and said arguments such as Jesus was a man, therefore priests must be men, or because Jesus did not ordain women, neither can we, cannot be taken as serious arguments. ”They offend against both logic and sound theology,” he said.
”On the issue of homosexuality and gay marriage, Daly said to describe it as sinful, as Pope Benedict XVI did, is to remain ”imprisoned in an outmoded kind of thinking which may actually verge on unintended blasphemy against an all-good and all-knowing Creator.”
The priest said homosexuality can no longer be credibly regarded as being ”against” nature. ”Scientifically, although there is no agreed explanation for it, there is agreement that it is part of nature and is never a matter of choice. One does not choose to be gay; one is born gay.”
Gabriel Daly kommenterade också uppfattningen att när en påve har sagt vad det är som gäller, exempelvis angående kvinnliga präster, så är det inte möjligt att ändra utan gäller för all framtid:
” … the church has changed its teaching many times over its history. He cited Pope Urban II’s support for the Crusades and said not even ultra-traditionalists today would regard themselves bound by this.
http://ncronline.org/news/people/irish-theologian-criticizes-us-bishops-making-humanae-vitae-fetish
Gert Gelotte
