On 5 June, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), charged with monitoring doctrine, issued a "notification" against the work of an American sister of mercy, Margaret Farley. Farley's 2006 book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, takes positions justifying divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, and, yes, masturbation, that are out of step with official Catholic teaching. The content of the Vatican reprisal can be fairly summed up as a series of declarations that Farley's proposals on these topics "are in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching".
Surely, this fact will surprise no one.
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