This article is interesting.
It shows that bishops not in communion with the Pope can make errors in faith and morals! As was demonstrated by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the highest Church authority in Canada for Canadians. And no, it's not because they're Canadians! Even though it was authoritatively given by the rightful shepherds of Canada, it was made in error.
So in 1968, after Pope Paul VI issued Humae Vitae, an encyclical that had authority over the Universal Church that made the final definitive statement on the morality of the use of contraception (if you don't know what it said, basically: artificial contraception is intrinsically evil), the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops got together for a Plenary meeting and issued a statement called now the Winnipeg statement, and in it contained parts (paragraphs 17, 25, 26, 34) that spoke quite contrary to the clear teaching in Humanae Vitae . The statement itself along with highlights.
And now, after 40 years, we can take a look back at the aftermath and the prophecies that Pope Paul VI predicted a whole generation ago. The Canadian Catholic Church has had to recover and even supercede the original Winnipeg statement with one on the 40th anniversary of the prophetic Humanae Vitae.
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I didn't really like the article that much, but the pastoral letters were very interesting.
While I don't think necessarily the letter was "heretical" as the article states and meant as a thumbing of a nose to the Holy See, it was very interesting to discern the clear change in tone between the two documents. In the Winnepeg statement you can sense the fear that the hard teaching of the Church would lead those to abandon it. Forty years later, you can sense the fear that we have strayed very far from the path of wholeness and righteousness...
Interesting analysis...
I would say that the Winnipeg statement made it easy and even opened the door a crack for the faithful to make excuses, similar to the Lambeth Conference resolution of the Anglican Communion in 1930 that started allowing the use of birth control for them.
But I wanted to give some good news too...that Bishops are usually really cool, like His Grace Bishop Soto (from Sacramento...Colin!!):
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08092907.html
I wrote him a happy thank-you letter, to his secretary anyway :P
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