Sister Margaret Farley - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:54:13 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sister Margaret Farley - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Catholic nun continues support for gay marriage despite Vatican censorship https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/09/20/catholic-nun-continues-support-gay-marriage-despite-vatican-censorship/ Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:01:34 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=49871

Sister Margaret Farley, author of the book "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics," continues to support the cause for gay marriage even after she was silenced by the Vatican last year for her book. The Vatican ruled that Sister Farley's book didn't uphold Catholic moral teaching. Irish American Sister Farley graduated, taught and Read more

Catholic nun continues support for gay marriage despite Vatican censorship... Read more]]> Sister Margaret Farley, author of the book "Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics," continues to support the cause for gay marriage even after she was silenced by the Vatican last year for her book.

The Vatican ruled that Sister Farley's book didn't uphold Catholic moral teaching.

Irish American Sister Farley graduated, taught and served as a board trustee at the University of Detroit-Mercy. She is also a retired Yale Divinity School professor.

"You just can't back down and say, I apologize, because it would contradict one's integrity," Sister Margaret Farley told about 400 people gathered at Mercy Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, last week.

"I didn't decide never to talk again about the things that were problematic," she said.

The Vatican concluded that Farley's positions on several issues, including supporting gay marriage, "are in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching in the field of sexual morality."

Sources

Irish Central

Detroit Free Press

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Sister Margaret Farley's book, 'Just Love: a Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics', published 6 years ago, has been condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This has had the effect of elevating the book to Amazon.com's list of 100 bestsellers and it is presently out of stock. In an opinion piece, Maureen Read more

Just love... Read more]]> Sister Margaret Farley's book, 'Just Love: a Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics', published 6 years ago, has been condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. This has had the effect of elevating the book to Amazon.com's list of 100 bestsellers and it is presently out of stock.

In an opinion piece, Maureen Dowd states that "The denunciation of Farley is based on the fact she deals with the modern world as it is", and sees the condemnation as "the latest chapter in the Vatican's thuggish crusade to push US nuns - and all Catholic women - back into mouldy subservience".

Maureen Dowd is a New York Times Op-Ed columnist.

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