R.R. Reno on Sr. Margaret Farley and dissent :
The New York Times styled it a denunciation. The National Catholic Reporter saw it as part of the Vaticans supposed war on women. The ever-reliable Paul Lakeland of Fairfield intoned that it was a black day in the history of the Church.What triggered this outrage? In early June the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican bureaucracy responsible for weighing in on questions of faith and morals, put out a Notification that censured Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics , a 2006 book about sexual ethics by Sr. Margaret Farley.
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