What continues to amaze me about the Church’s focus on this nun is the length to which they will go to punish the words and thoughts of religious women, while utterly failing to punish the significantly more harmful actions of religious men. If you’re a wrong-thinking nun, the Catholic Church will censure you. If you’re a priest who rapes children, Cardinal Timothy Dolan will reward you with $20,000.
Sister Margaret Farley Denounced by Vatican – NYTimes.com.
Sister Farley has clearly stated that her book is not intended to be read as a statement of Catholic doctrine. From the article:
Sister Farley, a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and an award-winning scholar, responded in a statement: “I can only clarify that the book was not intended to be an expression of current official Catholic teaching, nor was it aimed specifically against this teaching. It is of a different genre altogether.”
The book, she said, offers “contemporary interpretations” of justice and fairness in human sexual relations, moving away from a “taboo morality” and drawing on “present-day scientific, philosophical, theological, and biblical resources.”
On the plus side, because the Catholic hierarchy is totally ignorant of the Streisand effect, their official censure of Sister Farley’s book has catapulted it into the Amazon best sellers list.
Equivalence Principle 