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Pope Stresses Link
Between Love And Sex
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul
II was stressing the necessary link between
love and sex in marriage when he said that
a lustful desire for one’s wife is wrong, said
William May, associate professor of moral
theology at the Catholic University of
America.
The pope was speaking of “one who
does not love his wife as a wife with whom
he’s sharing his life,” but regards her only
as a sexual object, May said.
The pope was talking about using sex in
marriage not to share love, but merely to
get some pleasure out of the marriage
partner, he said.
May said that in earlier talks the pope
has stressed the joy and delight that should
be present in marital intercourse. The pope
is not opposed to “longing to cleave to
your wife,” he said.
The pope’s remarks were made in his
general audience talk Oct. 8, which was
one of a series of talks he has given on the
words of Jesus in the Sermon on the
Mount: “Anyone who looks lustfully at a
woman has already committed adultery
with her in his heart.”
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The pope said: “Adultery in the heart is
committed not only because a man looks
in such a way at a woman who is not his
wife, but precisely because he looks at a
woman that way. Even if he looks at a
woman who is his wife in this way he
would commit the same adultery in the
heart.”
May noted that in the encyclical
“Humanae Vitae,” Pope Paul VI had cited
forcing the conjugal act on an unwilling
partner as a lack of love in marriage.
And as long ago as the 14th century, he
said, Bishop Nicholas Oresme of Lisieux
said sexual union in marriage should be
“grounded in love.”
May has been married for 22 years and
has seven children.
Jesuit Father William C. McFadden,
chairman of the theology department at
Georgetown University, said the point of
equating a man’s lustful desire for his wife
to “adultery in the heart” “is to move
from consideration of what the action is to
a reading of the intention, the interior
disposition, of the person performing the
act.”
Sound ethical reflection is concerned
with both what is done and the intention
of the person doing it, Father McFadden
said.
Although “in terms of what he was
doing,” a man having sexual relations with
his wife is performing a good action, “his
internal disposition could be inappropriate
even with respect to his wife,” he said.
“The thing turns on the interpretation
of the word ‘lust,’” the Jesuit theologian
said. The pope is using the word “lust” in
the sense of the “self-gratifying use of
another,” he said.
Noting that the phrase “marital rape”
has come into use to describe a situation in
which one spouse forces the other to have
sexual relations, Father McFadden said,
“Marriage does not justify every way in
which you act.”
“I’m afraid,” he added, “that he (the
pope) creates more problems in using such
paradoxical language,” as equating lustful
desire for one’s own spouse to adultery.
“The pope’s thought here corresponds
with the best in women’s liberation, to
healthy areas of feminist thought,” said
Father Francis X. Meehan, associate
professor of moral theology at St. Charles
Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. “Even
in marriage, a woman is not simply a man’s
property for his use.
“The meaning of lust in Catholic
thought,” Father Meehan said, “is not
healthy sexual desire, but looking upon
someone as an object for selfish
gratification.” Lust in this sense is a
“manipulative wish,” he added.
The pope “is simply saying that we
should never treat women as objects,” the
theologian said. He is talking about “a way
of looking that divorces sexuality from
interpersonal love,” he added.
“It is not wrong for a husband to look
with desire at his wife,” Father Meehan
said, “but it is wrong for him to turn his
wife into an object for his own use.”
In a good marital relationship, sexual
desire is integrated into a broader
interpersonal communion, the theologian
said.
Synod Statements Affirm Family
CARDINAL COOKE in New York before
leaving for the Synod.
CARDINAL COOKE
Don’t Forget
Abused Children
VATICAN CITY (NC)
-- The world Synod of
Bishops must not neglect
the needs of the millions
of abused and battered
children, said Cardinal
Terence Cooke of New
York.
In a written
intervention on “The
Problem of Abused
Children and Abusive
Parents: Pastoral
Implications for Family
Ministry,” Cardinal
Cooke estimated that
there are a million
abused children in the
United States.
“A society which
neglects, abuses and kills
its own children cannot
hope to survive as a
society but will
eventually risk
disorganization and
disintegration,” he said.
“The responsibility
for this state of affairs
must be examined in
order to uncover the
specific forces in our
society causing the
changing social mores
which affect our children
and their families,” the
cardinal added.
He outlined a
three-point pastoral
response to the problem
of child abuse:
- Recognition of the
problem, including
cooperation with medical
personnel, law
enforcement officers and
social workers to develop
“a sensitivity and
awareness of situations
of violence and neglect in
the family.”
- The development of
treatment programs for
abused children and
abusive parents to “break
this cycle of violence
from generation to
generation.”
- Realization of the
capability of the church
and “the power of the
Gospel in ministry to,
with and for families.”
Cardinal Cooke,
chairman of the U.S.
Bishops’ ad hoc
Commission for Pro-Life
Activities, said abortion
was also an example of
child abuse. But he did
not 'include the number
of abortions in his
statistics.
“The child in the
world today is a sign of
God’s love and the hope
of humanity,” he said.
“May this simple and
powerful truth of the
'teaching of Jesus
motivate us to positive
loving action on behalf
of all children --
especially those who are
victims of violence and
injustice.”
ARCHBISHOP SANCHEZ
Fertile Ground For Vocations
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The
Christian family is “the fertile ground
wherein the seed of a vocation is
planted, nourished and ultimately
allowed to bloom and bear fruit,”
Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa
Fe, N.M., told the 1980 world Synod of
Bishops.
In a written intervention to the
synod Archbishop Sanchez said that
strong religious families are needed for
vocations to the priesthood, and
religious life.
The “Catholic-Christian home,” he
said, is one in which “the spirit of God
is supreme and the life and activities of
the members of the family center
around the expression of their faith and
the practice of their religion.”
“The church is an essential part of
this family,” he added. “Religious
devotions are practiced and prayer is an
intimate part of their daily activity.”
The American archbishop said that it
is “the obligation of every family to
promote the spirit and concept of
Christian service, including that of
service in the priesthood and religious
life within their own family.”
This call “goes out to every Catholic
family, not just to a chosen few,” he
said.
He added that a priestly or religious
vocation is often the product of several
generations of Christian family life, so
that “oftentimes the first seeds of a
religious vocation are planted not only
in the heart of the individual who is
called, but two and three and even four
generations before his or her time.”
Archbishop Sanchez, a Hispanic, also
emphasized the special need of
“distinctive cultural groups” such as
blacks, Hispanics and Indians in the
United States to have priests and
Religious of their own cultural group as
role models that they can identify with.
“For example, if an Indian family is
close to an Indian priest or Religious,
the example of that man or woman of
God will not only speak of the life and
peace of a religious vocation, but also
will speak loudly that a young person of
that particular cultural background can
also respond to God’s call,” he said.
MARRIED, ENGAGED COUPLES
Share Problems And Experiences
VATICAN CITY (NC) - “Lights and
shadows, expectations and concerns,
grave problems and solid hopes” all play
a part in the portrait of the family
today, said Pope John Paul II after
hearing the experiences of a dozen
couples from around the world.
The pope, 20 cardinals and about
100 bishops participating in the world
Synod of Bishops gathered in the Paul
VI Audience Hall Oct. 12 to hear how
the issues under discussion at the synod
are experienced in contemporary family
life.
If testimony from couples was
lacking, “something essential and
important would be missing” from the
synod, the pope said.
“It would not suffice, in fact, only to
discuss the theme which faces the
Synod of Bishops,” he added. “This
theme . . . must be given a eucharistic
dimension: It must be brought before
the altar and presented to the Eternal
Father, including it in the sacrifice of
Christ Himself.”
In the afternoon session engaged and
married couples discussed their
problems, joys and hopes.
“We are grateful to them because
now, after hearing them, we feel
richer,” said the pope after the
testimony was over.
“We are fully aware, in fact, that we
have much to learn from those who seek
to live with consistency the
unfathomable richness of a sacrament,”
he added.
Pope John Paul spoke in Italian,
French, English, Spanish, German and
Polish to the approximately 10,000
people in the hall.
He listed the values of the Christian
family as “love, fidelity, mutual aid,
indissolubility, fecundity in its fullest
significance, the rich intimacy of
openness toward others, the awareness
of being the original cell of society.”
“To illuminate (these values) when
they are obscured, to reinforce them
when they are weakened, to relight
them when they are burned out, is a
noble service,” the pope said.
In the English section of his talk,
Pope John Paul praised family
movements but warned that they must
not “water down what is their
fundamental inspiration - an inspiration
that is also their charisma and therefore
their strength - into an activity that
could become merely generic and
indiscriminate.
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preoccupation must not cause these
movements to fall into a false sociology
that would empty them of the full
content that is proper to them as long as
they remain true eeclesial movements,”
he added.
HOSTAGES REMEMBERED -
With a flag in place to honor each,
the American hostages in Iran were
remembered at an outdoor Mass in
Middle Village, N.Y., Oct. 4. One of
the six concelebrants reminded
Catholics that unless they forgive the
hostages’ captors they won’t live up
to their Christian responsibilities.
(NC Photo by Matthew Monahan)
Hostages Remembered
MIDDLE VILLAGE,
N.Y. (NC) - The 52
American hostages in Iran
were remembered at
prayers during an outdoor
Mass in Middle Village.
The homilist told the 450
participants that unless
those who remember the
captives also have a
forgiving attitude toward
the Iranians who hold
them, they can “forget”
about being true
Christians.
As 52 small American
flags fluttered in the
autumn breeze, Father
Anthony DiLorenzo,
associate pastor at St.
Aloysius Church,
Ridgewood, N.Y., told the
assembly, “If we pary for
the hostages and their
release, but do not forgive
their captors, then perhaps
we ought to forget about
being here.”
The bearded priest was
one of six concelebrants at
the Oct. 4 Mass at Our
Lady of Hope Parish, the
336th day after the
Americans were taken
hostage at the former U.S.
embassy in Iran.
Father DiLorenzo
continued that hatred and
revenge are corrosive
feelings. He stressed prayer
and reconciliation. “We
are a troubled people. We
had better learn to pray
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for the joy that Jesus
Christ, the one who loves
all humanity, can bring,”
he said.
One of the organizers
of the Mass was Charles
Krzewski, a member of the
local fire department’s fire
prevention division and
World War II veteran.
“The hostages were on
page one and now many
have forgotten them. Well,
we haven’t forgotten
them,” he said. “We pray
that God will free the
hostages and deliver them
unharmed to their
American homes.”
Krzewski expressed
disappointment that the
assembly was not larger
but said it was important
that the Mass be
conducted.
Alfred Genova brought
his three children, aged 6
to 12, “to give them an
idea of the hostage
situation.” He said, “I
want them to know that
we are not a divided
nation and to show them
prayers can help.”
When he heard about
the Mass, Raymond Egan,
a high school history
teacher, drove from his
home about 20 miles
away. “I felt that I had to
do something to show my
concern for the plight of
the hostages and to pray
for their release,” he said.
James Brady, a writer,
participated because “the
hostage crisis is a situation
we here can really do
nothing about, but the
Mass is the best
demonstration of support
that can be expressed.”
Another organizer, Mrs.
Audrey Shaloo, said the
Mass was planned “to ask
God to help free these
people - and their families
who are going through a
type of hell. We hope it
has some effect.”
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San Diego Bishop Warns Against Supporting Klan
SAN DIEGO (NC) -
Bishop Leo T. Maher of
San Diego has warned
Catholics that members of
the Ku Klux Klan and
those who support them
“are accomplices in the sin
of racism.”
Racism “is a radical,
fundamental cancer that
eats away at the heart and
mind, destroying both
with hatred,” said Bishop
Maher in a pastoral letter
released Sept. 30.
He said that in the San
Diego area “bald, crass
radical hatred” and
‘‘blatant, crude
expressions of racism” are
“being born anew in that
infamous organization
known as the Ku Klux
Klan.”
The San Diego Diocese
includes California’s 43rd
Congressional District,
where Tom Metzger, a
Klan leader, is running as
the Democratic candidate
for Congress.
Metzger has said he and
his wife are baptized
Catholics who stopped
going to church three
years ago because “the
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church was increasingly
coming under the
influence of radical
Christian Marxists.” The
church “started making a
saint of Cesar Chavez
(leader of the United Farm
Workers union) and people
in the radical left,”
Metzger said.
Claiming that his
supporters include
Catholic laymen and
priests, Metzger has been
seeking Catholic votes.
“Despite the repeated
admonitions of the
bishops of the United
States,” Bishop Maher
said, “some people
claiming to be Catholic are
championing the cause of
the Klan. What a tragedy!
Some others sympathetic
to the Klan seek to justify
its tenets from sacred
Scripture. They forget that
‘God’s word in Genesis
announces that all men
and women are created in
God’s image; not just some
races and racial types but
all bear the imprint of the
Creator and are enlivened
by the breath of His one
Spirit’ (U.S. Bishops’
Pastoral Letter on Racism
in Our Day, 1979, p.7).”
The Klan’s racial
prejudices and violence
assault the right to life,
liberty and property, and
to freedom of speech,
worship and assembly,
Bishop Maher said.
“The Klan stifles
freedom and the
democratic process,” he
continued. “Through
violence, which is almost
endemic to the Klan, they
impose their plans. Such
violence deserves our
serious attention since we
are the people who are to
protect and enjoy our
freedoms. Terrorism and
violence promoted by the
Ku Klux Klan cause so
many injustices and do
great damage to
fundamental personal
rights and dangerous harm
to the common good of
our society.
‘‘Locally their
outrageous attack on the
minorities and the
unprotected undocument
ed immigrant manifests
their violent attack against
the rights of man,” the
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bishop said. “We abhor
and condemn such
action.”
The bishop warned that
the use of force sets in
motion opposing forces
and leads to “a climate of
struggle which opens the
way to situations of
extreme violence and
abuses.”
Concluding, he said: “I
call upon all men and
women, and in particular
Catholics of our diocese,
to resist vigorously and
continually all forms of
prejudice and, with special
determination, racism.”
. Commenting on the
bishop’s letter, Metzger
said he did not think it
would hurt his campaign.
Noting that his opponent,
the Republican
incumbent, Clair Burgener,
is a Mormon, he said the
Mormon Church has had
racist policies.
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