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Article: When sex is the topic, ignorance is hardly bliss.(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- March 14, 1997
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In "Shadowlands," the biographical movie about the writer C.S. Lewis, there is a scene at an Oxford college reception. Joy, Lewis' American wife-to-be, is enduring a condescending assessment from a snooty Oxford don.
Finally she says, "Are you trying to be offensive or just merely stupid?"
The same question might be put to the Vatican over recent pronouncements on a topic about which it professes to know much and understands nothing: marital sex.
The Vatican recently allowed as how divorced and remarried Catholics might be admitted as fully pwticipating members of the church as long as they abstain from sexual activity. Isn't that nice?
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