Archbishop Hurley, the principle of overriding right and the post-conciliar debates on contraception and collegiality
Soon after the Second Vatican Council in which he had played an active part, Denis Hurley, the Archbishop of Durban in South Africa, underwent what he later called a conversion on the issue of birth control. In his view the right of married couples to maintain the conditions for stable family life j...
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Université Catholique
[2018]
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Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique
Year: 2018, Volume: 113, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 319-345 |
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| Summary: | Soon after the Second Vatican Council in which he had played an active part, Denis Hurley, the Archbishop of Durban in South Africa, underwent what he later called a conversion on the issue of birth control. In his view the right of married couples to maintain the conditions for stable family life justified a breach to the obligation of letting all sexual acts open to procreation. This is what he called the principle of overriding right. Hurley remained faithful to this conviction until his death in 2004. In August 1968 he was one of the few bishops in the world who publicly expressed his disagreement with Paul VI after the publication of Humanae Vitae. A key part of the problem, according to him, was that the Pope had made up his mind without taking into account the views of the world's episcopate, in contradiction with the doctrine of collegiality, taught and practiced with great success during the Council. |
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| ISSN: | 2294-1088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.RHE.5.115560 |