It strikes me as more of a gift from the priests giving up sex.
a) the Pastors of the Church need clearly to promote the correct moral teaching of the Church and publicly to reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care;
What the heck are they getting at here?
This piece strikes me as a committee written exercise in opaque burearcratese. Sorry to be so negative.
I call it "Vaticanese". You have to know how to interpret it. For example, the following:
a) the Pastors of the Church need clearly to promote the correct moral teaching of the Church and publicly to reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care;
translated into American English, comes out roughly like this:
Bishops need to stop being wishy-washy about sexual sin. In particular, priests & religious ["religious"=laypeople under vows, like nuns & monks] who are teaching that homosexual acts can sometimes be something other than grave sin need to be slapped down, hard, and by local bishops, not just by Rome. Also, bishops, if you have any "gay" organizations in your dioceses, or "parents and friends of gays" organizations, which are not four-square behind Catholic teaching that all sexual activity outside of marital intercourse open to life is mortal sin, you need to make it clear that they aren't speaking for the Church, and you don't support them.
What the heck are they getting at here?
This piece strikes me as a committee written exercise in opaque burearcratese. Sorry to be so negative.
It is not surprising that you do not understand the message being delivered. Few outside the Church, heck, few inside the Church understand the actual problem and the required solution. The fact that you do not understand the message does not mean that there is not a message. Trust that those who needed to hear the messae have heard it.
SD