Leaked US Bishops Draft Marriage Pastoral Letter Strong, but Under Fire from Dissidents









October 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At their upcoming general assembly in Baltimore from November 16-19, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will debate and vote on a new pastoral letter on marriage.  A draft of the letter, entitled 'Love and Life in the Divine Plan,' has been leaked, and is already being praised by Catholic and pro-family leaders as a strong presentation of the Church's teaching on marriage and a forceful rebuke of cultural attacks on authentic marriage and family life.

The letter, meant to be an important component of the USCCB's National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage, is addressed "first and foremost to the Catholic faithful in the United States," but is also meant to reach all men and women "in the hope of inspiring them to embrace this teaching."

The draft, however, has also drawn harsh criticism from the leftist National Catholic Reporter (NCR), which wrote that "this turkey of a text," which is "strangely, and fatally, at odds with the texts of the Second Vatican Council," should be "scrap[ped]" in its entirety.  According to NCR, this pastoral letter is "not ... pastoral," with it "read[ing] as if it was written by someone who has never once engaged in a marriage preparation program, let alone actually ever been married."  The first section "spends too much time talking about the threats to modern marriage," they say, "such as high divorce rates, cohabitation, same-sex unions and, of course, contraception (an 'intrinsic evil')."

Click here to read the entire story.

This pastoral letter must be really good, otherwise why would it be under such attack?

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