Vatican for the day

Cindy Ok has a Slate article about the Vatican:

A prominent American nun's bid to offer some "contemporary interpretations" of Catholic teaching on human sexuality isn't going over so well with the Vatican.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's official orthodoxy office, issued a statement declaring that Sister Margaret Farley’s book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, presents a "defective understanding" of Catholic theology and should not be used by Roman Catholics, The New York Times reports.
Farley, an award-winning ethicist who taught Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, published the book in 2006, and it came under Vatican investigation four years later. The church cites Farley's views of masturbation as positive, homosexuality as respectable, and remarriage after divorce as acceptable as proof that her book is irreconcilable with Catholic teaching.
Despite the Vatican's opposition, more than a dozen theological scholars, along with the largest nun’s organization in America, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, offered their support for Farley and declared the Vatican’s accusations unjustified.
In her own written response, Farley defended her book, saying that by writing it she sought only to offer "contemporary interpretations of traditional meanings for the human body, gender, and sexuality," and that she concedes that some of its views "are not in accord with current official Catholic teaching." She added: "I can only clarify that the book was not intended to be an expression of current official Catholic teaching, nor was it aimed specifically against this teaching. It is of a different genre altogether."

Rico says that Christian ethics is a non sequitur... (Oh, what, you forgot the Inquisition?)