"Like a disease, pregnancy is caused by a pathogen, an external organism invading the host’s body."
"as long as pregnancy is the only route to reproduction for most women, it is difficult, if not impossible, to gauge the value of pregnancy in its own right. "
The writer's desire to leave the child out of the equation as a complete good is so striking. The child is only part of the equation if they are wanted (if you search the word "child" in the paper, it comes up only in this context of being wanted or in the case of infertility, excluding the use of "childbirth"). Otherwise, pregnancy is just something that will cause you to suffer! And if you desire suffering for a greater good, there must be something wrong with you...
I don't know; they might have seen reasons to reference it, but in terms of the universal Church, not as a redefinition. Trent itself was a doctrinal council; Vatican II was not (per its own self definition). But yes, Trent recalled the Church to herself and didn't propose some "new way of being Church"!
That pregnancy article is chilling...
"Like a disease, pregnancy is caused by a pathogen, an external organism invading the host’s body."
"as long as pregnancy is the only route to reproduction for most women, it is difficult, if not impossible, to gauge the value of pregnancy in its own right. "
The writer's desire to leave the child out of the equation as a complete good is so striking. The child is only part of the equation if they are wanted (if you search the word "child" in the paper, it comes up only in this context of being wanted or in the case of infertility, excluding the use of "childbirth"). Otherwise, pregnancy is just something that will cause you to suffer! And if you desire suffering for a greater good, there must be something wrong with you...
Remember the movie “Alien”? That’s what that movie was about.
I never saw that. But between making women feel like they are invaded and making them feel like they are diseased... it's pretty bad!
It really makes you wonder if popes 80+ years after Trent were like "we need to follow the Council of Trent still!"
I don't know; they might have seen reasons to reference it, but in terms of the universal Church, not as a redefinition. Trent itself was a doctrinal council; Vatican II was not (per its own self definition). But yes, Trent recalled the Church to herself and didn't propose some "new way of being Church"!