Sex & the Church
Amy's having quite a blogcussion on the Leon Podles controversy. I am fascinated that Podles allegedly lays the blame for a feminized Church at the feet of Hans von Balthasar and Pope JPII. I'll have to read more about that. It seems like one of Gerard's contentions is that sexual sin should not be viewed horrendously. Amy Welborn in the past has said something similar - that the Church is too hard on sexual sins at the expense of other types of sin. Michael Jones has a very interesting view of the question; he's a hardcore "see everything thru the lens of sex" type, but then men are supposed to think about it every six seconds. I've heard many others claim that the Church is obsessed with sex, but then so is modern society. Perhaps the Church has to be obsessed with whatever society is obsessed with. Crocker's take on it seems to be that the Church has guided a middle ground despite the seemingly sexophobic Augustine (and St. Paul?). Crocker points out that the influential theologian Origen actually had himself castrated. So I guess Augustine does look a little moderate compared to Origen.
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