New Oxford Notes: July-August 2014
A Manufactured Controversy
Those raising the most vocal objections to new diocesan teacher contracts -- which stipulate that teachers conduct themselves according to basic Catholic principles in their public lives -- are those who do not agree with many of the Church's teachings.
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The authority exercised by the priest is derived from the risen and divine Christ who invisibly gives him his mission through a visible sacrament.
He dissents from a basic moral principle of Judeo-Christian, Catholic social teaching: that superfluous wealth must be shared with the poor.