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In the event that some readers of this thread
might like to have a sample of the thinking (or is it non-thinking?)
of this particular prince of the Church named Marengo,
perhaps the following would fulfill that desire.
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The polemical game - the pill yes - the pill no, like today's - Communion to the divorced yes - Communion to the divorced no -
is only an appearance of discomfort and strain much more decisive in the fabric of ecclesial life. [?]
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Every time the Christian community falls into error and proposes models of life derived from too abstract
and artificially constructed theological ideals,
it conceives its pastoral action as the schematic application of a doctrinal paradigm.
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[If that paragraph makes no sense the first time, read it again, and it will probably still make no sense!!]
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A certain way of defending and acknowledging the teaching of Paul VI was probably one of the factors for which
we have presented a too abstract theological ideal on marriage, almost artificially constructed,
far from the concrete situation and the effective possibilities of families as they really are.
This excessive idealization, above all when we have reawakened trust in grace,
has not made marriage more attractive and desirable, but quite the opposite.
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If you're having trouble connecting the dots in this screed, perhaps it would help you to understand what is being attempted
by way of these words, if you recall that a certain condemned Modernist named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin made a name for
himself by re-defining words or shall we say, by taking standard Catholic terminology and using the words in an entirely
new context or application in such way that the whole of his writings would not make sense to a reader unless the
reader would dare to presume that these erstwhile standard Catholic terms would no longer carry the same meaning
they had previously, but instead take on, perhaps by a kind of osmosis or mysterious operation, a new meaning quite
different from the old one, even perhaps approaching a meaning entirely OPPOSITE to what they had meant before.
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