A question regarding homosexuality

[Rau]

Does the Church teach that?

The Catechism says that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” or “objectively disordered” (CCC 2357-2358). This is in reference to natural law, not Divine law. In the “In Brief” summary (CCC 2396), the Catechism describes homosexual acts as one of four acts “gravely contrary to chastity” (along with masturbation, fornication, and pornography).

AFAIK, the only sexual act that the Catechism specifically describes as an “intrinsically and gravely disordered action” is masturbation [CCC 2352].

Is your suggestion that homosexual acts are not (taught as) grave matter?

 

[ericc]

Let’s draft the question in another way.

1. You know the Church teaches Act X(fill in your favourite) to be a mortal sin.
2. You disagree but you obey and you don’t do it (and don’t preach against Church teaching) i.e. intellectual silent disagreement.

Are you in a state of Grace to receive the Eucharist?

My POV is yes as long as there is obedience to Church teaching. Understanding why is not mandatory. Each of our IQ levels are different.

1. My answer would be if you love someone and even if you don’t know why or even disagree an act would hurt him, you don’t do it out of love.
2. You accept that the people he has appointed has the authority to make that determination, even if you think they are idiots, wrong, buffoons.

If one would disagree with 1 or 2 and decided to do it because your mind can not accept it, one has become a protestant. Whether it is mortal or not depends on whether your intelligent mind was able to fully differentiate the graveness of the act. From then on, the line between heresy and your definition of faith becomes very thin.

I am open to correction though.