The Magisterium of the Catholic Church needs to realize that it has lost its moral credibility on sexual matters decades ago. Humanae Vitae demonstrated in graphic terms the appallingly  poor judgment and  hubris of the teaching Church and its contempt for the Sensus Fidei Fidelium as over ninety percent of Catholic adults rejected the teaching as either being of the Faith or as binding on Conscience.  This catastrophic loss of moral authority and persuasiveness has compounded itself by staggering proportions with the utter disaster of clerical sexual abuse of children. 

The hierarchy of the Church, apart from its magnificent track record of Social Gospel teaching, should  shut up on matters of sexuality and sexual morality for at least five hundred years while it does a lengthy silent retreat, meditating on its own moral congruence and accountability to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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