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United Press International
'VATICAN CITY — U.S. Roman Catholic bishops
Elective support their church’s ban on artificial birth control
heady bet! n $ wor k to assure more complete compliance with
led withavh^heir leader said Wednesday.
ts beforewr f rt hbisho P Joh’ 1 Quinn of San Francisco made the
give it i tati ment denying reports that American bishops, wor-
ie& about widespread disregard of the birth control ban
members P h 16 United States, want it modified.
*nd the otkiP e ' t ^ er 1 nor t l ie American Bishops Conference
[roup end 6 !' or ehalleuge the doctrine of the Catholic Church
i e teaehero ^rOntraceptiori,” said Quinn, president of the confer-
ln t door' ® Ct ’ Neither I nor the American Bishops Conference
p telephone^ c ^ll* n 8 f or a change in the doctrine of the Catholic
'hurch on contraception.”
educationaif on ^ us * on a l >out t l ie U S. bishops’ stand on the issue
ting thefuiK 56 Monday after Quinn told the World Synod of
vite all 7 eii “f'PP s meeting at the Vatican that teaching of the birth
cause ’’ Vml ban needed to be improved.
^ report of Quinn’s speech Monday suggested that he
■ called for a complete reexamination of the ban on
m Ijrtificial birth control announced by the Vatican in 1968.
PThe intent of my speech was to suggest possible ways
tfaiaking the church s teaching on contraception better
Rerstood and more widely accepted,” said Quinn,
Ha told the bishops nearly 80 percent of American
} 'Jhc IH Catholic women were using banned artificial
| ontraceptives.
HThe subject of the church ban on artificial contracep-
iyes has been a major issue at the synod, whose theme is
ur after binnodem family life.
>pen thedoMpardinal Pericle Felici told the gathering Tuesday the
tors reporte:hurch’s 1968 ban closed the issue once and for all and
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Felici, 69, bitterly attacked the liberal stand of Quinn,
who called for a new study of Pope Paul Vi’s encyclical
“Humanae Vitae,” banning all forms of artificial birth
control.
“I listened to an intervention asking for a new study of
‘Humanae Vitae.’ I consider the document closed,”
Felici said, referring to Quinn’s argument that modern-
day statistics show some 80 percent of Catholic women
in the United States use contraceptives.
“There is no need to rediscuss it. There is no need to
give credence to statistics because statistics don’t mean
anything,” Felici said.
His comments sharply divided the leading Catholic
churchmen attending the month-long 5th World Synod
of Bishops, called by Pope John Paul II to discuss the
problems of the modem Christian family.
Quinn called for modification of the encyclical, and
Britain’s Catholic prelate. Cardinal Basil Hume,
archbishop of Westminster, also criticized the ban,
saying many “good, conscientious and faithful” Catho
lics could not accept it.
“These Catholics cannot accept the total prohibition
of the use of artificial means of contraception, where
circumstances seem to make this necessary or even
desirable,” said Hume.
Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati told the
synod, “A new, more positive theology of sexuality is
necessary to help people understand and accept the
teachings of the Church.”
The Vatican invited 53 lay Catholics, many of them
family planning experts, to attend the synod to convince
troubled Catholics they can live within church teachings
on birth control, abortion and divorce, the synod’s main
themes.
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