Advice from a Catholic ArchBishop

[HawkerHurricane]

In 1994, then-Archbishop of Portland William Levada offered a simple answer for why the archdiocese shouldn't have been ordered to pay the costs of raising a child fathered by a church worker at a Portland, Ore., parish.

In her relationship with Arturo Uribe, then a seminarian and now a priest in Whittier, Calif., the child's mother had engaged "in unprotected intercourse ... when (she) should have known that could result in pregnancy," the church maintained in its answer to the lawsuit.

The legal proceeding got little attention at the time. And the fact that the church - which considers birth control a sin - seemed to be arguing that the woman should have protected herself from pregnancy provoked no comment. Until last month.
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[dalloway]

1. very interesting catch.

Birth control is illegal unless child support is an issue....

It reminds me of when I learned that Catholic priest were allowed to marry until their were too many disagreements over inheritance and property. Seems the Church wanted all property to revert to them, not heirs. Hence, celibacy and no married priests.