SHOULD THE DOCTRINE COMMITTEE OF THE USCCB EXAMINE AND CRITIQUE CARDINAL MCELROY’S MOST RECENT DEPARTURE FROM CATHOLIC MORAL TEACHINGS?

 

When I was stationed at our cathedral in the 1980’s, our Bishop Raymond Lessard was elected chair of the Doctrine Committee of the USCCB. Thus, since the bishop lived at the cathedral rectory, I learned of the various things this committee was doing at that time and there was a lot. 

Perhaps the new president of the USCCB, Archbishop Broglio of the Military Archdiocese should charge the USCCB’S doctrine committee to examine Cardinal McElroy’s most recent foray into moral teaching heterodoxy.

Here is Fr. Raymond de Souza’s commentary on the McElroy debacle of leading Catholics astray in the National Catholic Register. The summary below of his commentary hits the nail on the head, so to speak:

Cardinal McElroy’s Attack on Church Teachings on Sexuality Is a Pastoral Disaster

COMMENTARY: Jettisoning the distinction between ‘orientation and activity’ means the end of chastity as a virtue to be strived for — or implies that ‘the LBGT community’ is not capable of chastity and should therefore be preached a lesser gospel.

Father Raymond J. de SouzaVatican