Are you aware, Sister Mary, that as far as PHYSICAL circumcision is concerned, our Pope Pius XII taught that circumcision is morally permissible only if it prevents a disease that cannot be countered any other way? Most modern Catholics have never been taught that no Christians anywhere in the world practiced PHYSICAL circumcision for over 1,800 years until John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of Corn Flakes, and persons like him started teaching that circumcision was a cure for masturbation. Here is a link that gives more information about Catholic doctrine and circumcision – http://www.drmomma.org/2010/03/morality-of-circumcision-according-to.html

While the issues surrounding circumcision are complex, I’ve never heard anyone say that intact (non-circumcised) men are less fertile than circumcised men. In China, they do not practice circumcision and they have the largest population in the world! Food for thought.

The Apostle Paul actually called physical circumcision mutilation in Philippians 3:2, but most of us are not taught that today. But thanks for writing about circumcision of the heart. I am a firm believer that is the circumcision God wants for us today – the cutting away of sin from our hearts.