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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
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- Subject: Re: New Catholic Catechism
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.155832.7684@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:58:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov17.155832.7684
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- berninge@cs.purdue.edu (James Berninger) writes:
- >On my way home from Hickville, Indiana (TM), I was quite taken aback
- >by a national news report that the Catholic Church (TM) has issued a
- >new catechism -- the first one in over 400 years. It mentions,
- >among other things, a new stance on gays: "One should avoid all
- >unjust discrimination of them."
-
- >I'm mildly curious if anyone has a more complete copy of this text
- >-- I'd like to see what this section is about...
-
- It's still only in French...
-
- Another "pearl" --- divorce is "FORBIDDEN" between
- baptized Catholics (I'm not sure why they make this distinction),
- but polygamy is only listed as a "grave offense". Go figure.
-
- Oh and now it's OK to enjoy sex, just don't enjoy it *too*
- much...
-
- Re: the gay thing - it might invalidate the paper that went
- around some monthsa ago, BUT one would also need in the
- new dictum to define "unjust".... could be that "unjust" only
- means no concentration camps...
-
- I wouldn't say Hallelujah quite yet...
-
- BBC
-
- P.S. The council of bishops in theUS actually met with Dignity
- yesterday --- I wonder what they could have possibly said to each
- other. At the same time the bishops tried like hell to avoid having
- to meet with clergy sexual-abuse survivors... (they finally did).
-
- PPS It's snowing... :-(
-