The Assault on Humanae Vitae Grows More Explicit
There are some people who still think that people are being rude and nasty about Pope Francis and Amoris Laetitia . "You've never liked him" come the school playground retorts to the stream of anti-Catholic news coming out of Rome. " Amoris Laetitia is perfectly orthodox, Cardinal Müller said so", they whine, failing to recognise the very function of the pope is to dispel confusion and reinforce truth. The fact the Pope has said nothing to the proliferation of alternative interpretations of his Apostolic Exhortation seems to completely pass them by. When news broke last year that a group of theologians had been commissioned with reviewing Humanae vitae , the prophetic and continuously controversial encyclical of Pope Paul VI which condemned artificial birth control, they dismissed it as rumour being spread to further damage Pope Francis' reputation. Indeed, Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, (yes, he who commissioned his own homo-erotic mural , ...