conditions that systemically expose women to threats to their sexual integrity and health, and to their very lives. Throughout, Just Love exemplifies the realism and caution that it calls for, giving examples of both actions and situations that meet minimal ethical demands and those that support personal moral and spiritual growth. Thus, we engage in ethical reflection and moral choice not only from different situations but also from different stages of self-knowledge, maturity, and spiritual growth. Just as the major thinkers who created our inherited framework for Christian sexual ethics had few sources in scripture or tradition upon which to found their teaching, and therefore turned to natural law, so Farley has in some sense returned to their starting point. She does not invoke the term natural law for her approach - perhaps because the natural law tradition in sexuality is so contaminated with both physicalism and essentialism. However, in a very analogous way, she brings together what we know about embodied, sexual human beings from our …show more content…
The Notification issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in June 2012 shows that the book “contained erroneous propositions, the dissemination of which risks grave harm to the faithful.” The Congregation thus notes that Farley's views were a “defective understanding of the objective nature of natural moral law” and were “in direct contradiction with Catholic teaching in the field of sexual morality.” The Notification specifically criticizes many errors and ambiguities of the book’s treatment of masturbation (236), homosexual unions (293), homosexual acts (295), the indissolubility of marriage (304-305) and the problem of divorce and remarriage