Top Catholic nun continues support for gay marriage despite Vatican censorship
Controversial theologian re-issues support for gay marriage (VIDEO)
By IrishCentral Staff Writers,
Published Thursday, September 19, 2013, 7:12 AM
Updated Thursday, September 19, 2013, 8:43 AM
A prominent Catholic nun continues to support the cause for gay marriage, despite being silenced by the Vatican last year over a book she penned.
The Vatican’s watchdog office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, declared in June 2012 that Sister Margaret Farley’s book, “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics,” didn’t uphold Catholic moral teaching on several issues. They advised it shouldn’t be used as a Catholic teaching tool.
Irish American Sister Farley graduated, taught and served as a board trustee at the University of Detroit-Mercy. She is also a retired Yale Divinity School professor.
“You just can’t back down and say, I apologize, because it would contradict one’s integrity,” Sister Margaret Farley, 78, told about 400 people gathered last Friday at Mercy Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
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