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Editor’s Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of “The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,” is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor.
By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN
A few years ago I sat on a book prize jury and weighed the merits of the book “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics” by Margaret A. Farley, a nun in the Sisters of Mercy order. I thought it was well-researched and well-argued, and I was not surprised when it won the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion (and with it a $200,000 prize).
On May 21, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith forwarded to Sister Patricia McDermott, president of Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, a Notification condemning Farley’s “Just Love.” On Monday, the Vatican published that Notification online.
Not surprisingly, the matter preoccupying the Vatican here is not poverty or hunger or oppression. It is sex.
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