The National Chismatic Reporter has the following article in today's NCR:
The church must face its own role in violence against women
KANSAS CITY (MO)
National Catholic Reporter
January 7, 2020
By Jamie Manson
Of all of the religious instruction classes that my mother took as a girl, one lesson in particular always seemed to stay with her: the day that the nun explained the church's teaching on divorce.
A girl in the class asked the sister whether it would be okay to leave her husband if he hit her.
"No," the nun replied. "Even if he beats you, you have to stay with him."
National Catholic Reporter
January 7, 2020
By Jamie Manson
Of all of the religious instruction classes that my mother took as a girl, one lesson in particular always seemed to stay with her: the day that the nun explained the church's teaching on divorce.
A girl in the class asked the sister whether it would be okay to leave her husband if he hit her.
"No," the nun replied. "Even if he beats you, you have to stay with him."
Of course the NCR has a their normal axe to grind in this article. It is about allowing divorced and remarried outside of the Church to receive Holy Communion. For that matter they want everyone to be able to receive no matter their status. I would venture to guess they would advocate for the unbaptized to receive as well as family pets.
But....who in the Church today says that a spouse has to stay with a spouse who physically abuses them? Does this happen today.
Does it happen in the SSPX?
2 comments:
The "tell" in this article was the reference to a class taught by a nun.
The National "Catholic" Reporter routinely fulminates against the urgent problems of the Church of the 1950s.
Bee here:
Fr. McD said, "I would venture to guess they would advocate for the unbaptized to receive as well as family pets."
I could see the family pets argument...
Somehow I bet the article about "violence" to women is connected behind the scenes to this item from Church Militant:
"Within weeks of one another, the [U.S.] Senate and House of Representatives have re-introduced the International Violence Against Women Act of 2019 (IVAWA).
Experts from the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) called the bills "Trojan horse" legislation that Democrats have used repeatedly to sneak abortion, gender issues and contraception into bills that purport to protect women and children from violence."
May be a coincidence, but a happy one, no? (sarcasm)
God bless.
Bee
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