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[quote=Anonymous]On this Pro Life March Day I want to share how painful it is to watch Catholics present themselves as nso arrow-minded on this issue.  We should be advocating for more birth control. I'm friends with older priests and sisters who talk about how awful it was in 1968 when Humanae Vitae came out. Here's a story about Fr. Horace McKenna, one of the greatest priests to work in DC:

Horace’s most difficult time as a priest came in 1968, after Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae. He publicly dissented from the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal O’Boyle, who had issued guidelines for priests to apply the teaching prohibiting the use of artificial birth control. Horace, who had great personal affection for the cardinal, joined a group of priests in protesting a literal application of the encyclical. Relying on more than 40 years experience hearing confessions, Horace argued for some pastoral accommodation for married couples who as a matter of conscience found the teaching unduly burdensome. Because of this dissent, Cardinal O’Boyle, who had equal esteem for Horace, restricted him from hearing confessions. Being kept from the “peace box” pained Horace deeply. After two-and-a-half years of canonical appeals and personal pleas, Horace and other dissenting priests expressed assent to a series of statements of doctrine, after which O’Boyle restored their faculties to hear confessions.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/625/faith-focus/horace-mckenna-apostle-poor [/quote]

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