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A Vatican group responsible for enforcing the doctrines of the Catholic Church has denounced Sister Margaret Farley, a professor of Christian ethics at the Yale University Divinity School. The Church took issue with her book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. The book argues for same-sex marriage, masturbation, and divorce, according to the NYT:

The Vatican office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the book, “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics,” by Sister Margaret A. Farley, was “not consistent with authentic Catholic theology,” and should not be used by Roman Catholics. …

The statement quoted liberally from some of the racier passages in “Just Love,” including ones in which Sister Farley writes that female masturbation “usually does not raise any moral questions at all.” She adds that “many women” have found “great good in self-pleasuring — perhaps especially in the discovery of their own possibilities for pleasure — something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands or lovers.”

The Vatican said this assessment contradicted church teaching that “the deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.”

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