Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann: Radical Inclusion Leads to Moral Confusion

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Cardinal McElroy appears to believe that the Church for 2,000 years has exaggerated the importance of her sexual moral teaching, and that radical inclusion supersedes doctrinal fidelity. In my opinion, this is a most serious and dangerous error.

By Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, Catholic World Report, February 10, 2023 

The Most Reverend Joseph F. Naumann is the 4th Archbishop and the 11th Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, where he was installed on January 15, 2005.

(Editor’s note: This column was written originally for the February 10, 2023 edition of The Leaven, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, and is posted here with kind permission of Archbishop Naumann.)

I came of age in the 1960s. It was an era of civil unrest, race riots, anti-war protests, and the sexual revolution. One of the popular bumper stickers at the time stated: Question Everything.

These societal events coincided with the sessions of the Second Vatican Council and its early implementation. The Council brought beautiful and much needed renewal to many aspects of Catholic life. Sadly, there was also a serious misinterpretation of the Council that fostered moral confusion. The poisonous ideas of the sexual revolution crept into the Church. …

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