Silly Catholics Allow Academic Freedom

[Johny Joe Hold]

Catholic bigwigs are all upset about a book one of their professors wrote about sexuality.

http://www.divinityandbeyond.com/?p=1290

I haven't read the book or care one twit about it. It's just amusing that a Catholic university allowed a book to be written that chruch officials disapprove of.

How could this happen? "We protect academic freedom," says the University person.

We can all be proud that at Landover Baptist University, there is no academic freedom.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Silly Catholics Allow Academic Freedom

Where is academic freedom mentioned in Scripture?

ETA: Oh, wait. Did I just ask how Romanists justify themselves Biblically? Sometimes I crack myself up.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Silly Catholics Allow Academic Freedom

U.S. Catholic bishops’ doctrine committee today denounced a book on sexuality written by two Nebraska theologians — one with Minnesota ties.

The book, The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology, was co-authored by Michael Lawler and Todd Salzman and published by Georgetown University Press in 2008.

Lawler has published at least three books with Liturgical Press, an arm of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn. Two of those books were about marriage; the other was about the church. None of the books ran afoul of the bishops.

In denouncing The Sexual Person, the doctrine committee said the theologians erroneously “argue for the moral legitimacy of some homosexual acts.”

We can only assume the Bishops were outraged over the advocacy of homosexuality between consenting and adult laity. I suppose these old men of the Catholic church still think sex is only between only priest and one child and the laity are supposed to run cover while repeating "I am not good enough to judge".

[MonkeyLove]

Re: Silly Catholics Allow Academic Freedom

We can only assume the Bishops were outraged over the advocacy of homosexuality between consenting and adult laity. I suppose these old men of the Catholic church still think sex is only between only priest and one child and the laity are supposed to run cover while repeating "I am not good enough to judge".

What are you implying by your last sentence?