“Your Eminence,
I and other Catholics involved in Pro-Life and Chastity Education were very disappointed with your ‘carte blanche’ affirmation of ‘Support for Christopher West”. I suspect you have not seen his immodest, indelicate, and even crude rants on TV which have alienated many Catholics who can not understand how a Catholic educator couold engage in such an irreverent treatment of human sexuality. Nor can they understand the manner in which he has treated the Church’s doctrine of the Mother of God’s ‘virginitas in partu’ (her delivery of her Divine Son was a bloody one !). What, moreover, should be thought of his understanding of what constitutes sodomy?
You discount too much the criticisms of such authorities on the ‘Theology of the Body’ as Dr.David Schindler and various priests who are concerned that Mr.West has violated elements of the Church’s teaching on Chastity found in the Church’s key document”The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.’
The ‘Theology of the Body’ furthered by Pope John Paul II is indeed, as you write, ‘a treasure for the Church’, But Christopher West is no Pope John Paul II.
Bishops of the Church need to insist that his serious errors and seriously flawed presentations be addressed and corrected.May I add that for 40 years there has been too much of the same unchaste and irreverent approach characterizing ‘Sex Education’ in both public and parochial schools tolerated or even encouraged by our Catholic bishops. The sex scandals that have rabaged the Church are not disconnected with the immodest and unchaste Classroom sex education that has been fashionable in our Catholic Schools at every level and, indeed, in our seminaries. May Our Lord give all our Bishops discernment in these serious matters.”

Mary, Mother of Sorrows hear us and help us… for we are like sheep scattered.

In addition to our Mother… who protects us, we have two things going for us Dave: 1.) Good priests, 2.) Catholic women (and now children too) who can smell counterfeit theology from a mile away.

Amen.