Catholic Moral Absolutes

[Barbkw]

What are the moral absolutes in the Catholic Church?

Can Catholics be pro-choice concerning abortion?

How about accepting homosexual sex acts and gay marriage, can Catholics be pro-choice on that?

 

[JRKH]

What are the moral absolutes in the Catholic Church?

Can Catholics be pro-choice concerning abortion?

How about accepting homosexual sex acts and gay marriage, can Catholics be pro-choice on that?

Spiritually, Catholics cannot be pro-choice on any of the above items. The Church has clearly and consitantly condemned each one as sinful.

Politically that means that, should such a matter go on the balot, we would be obliged spiritually to vote against it. If a candidate is in favor of such measures we need to refrain from voting for that person.

If - Despite our efforts in this regard, these sinful activities are made legal, we must accept them as “civilly” legal, but never as right. Therefore we need to work at educating the population to reject these things and, when enough of the voting public is thus educated, the laws can then be changed back.
OR - even if the laws remain in force, the more people who are properly educated, the fewer instances there will be of these sinful behaviors.

Hope this helps.

Peace
James

 

[Barbkw]

Thank you for your reply.

Do you know of a complete written list stating Catholic moral absolutes?

Or individual statements on each topic?

Do these moral absolutes come from the Pope (s) ? If so, is the list be available at the Vatican website?

 

[Barbkw]

I should clarify.

When I write “can Catholics be prochoice on abortion, gay marriage, accepting noncelibate same sex attraction” what I often read here on Catholic Answers are Catholics saying that they themselves would not have an abortion or have sex with individuals of their sex but…they would not take that choice away (abortion and gay marriage) from other individuals.

Is that type of prochoice mentality an action against the moral absolutes of the Catholic Church?

 

[JRKH]

Thank you for your reply.

Do you know of a complete written list stating Catholic moral absolutes?

Or individual statements on each topic?

Do these moral absolutes come from the Pope (s) ? If so, is the list be available at the Vatican website?

Personally I know of no “list” of moral absolutes. Your best bet to find out about each would be in the Catholic Church Catechism. There is a very nice searchable one online HERE (note use the search engine at the bottom of the page, not the top)
Just type in what you want to look up. Not only will you find appropriate statements but you will also find footnotes to the source documents.

All of these teachings come from the Magisterium of the Church headed by the Pope.

Peace
James

 

[1ke]

What are the moral absolutes in the Catholic Church?

This is sort of an oddly stated question. Maybe you need to expand what you mean by this. All of the moral teachings of the Church are absolutes. These are embodied in the Ten Commandments. I suggest you read the entire section of the Catechism dealing with the moral law. The Catechism goes into great detail, although it is a summary, regarding Church teaching.

Can Catholics be pro-choice concerning abortion?

No. Abortion is a grave sin against the Fifth Commandment. It is murder. A Catholic cannot in any way favor murdering children.

How about accepting homosexual sex acts and gay marriage, can Catholics be pro-choice on that?

No, a Catholic cannot participate in or support either of these things. These are grave sins against the Sixth Commandment.

I suggest you read the Catechism for a starter, and then go more deeply into the documents from which the catechism draws.

 

[1ke]

Is that type of prochoice mentality an action against the moral absolutes of the Catholic Church?

Yes, it is a violation of the moral law.

This is called moral relativism, it’s a heresy.

A Catholic cannot hold such a position.

 

[PJM]

=Barbkw;7097442]What are the moral absolutes in the Catholic Church?

Can Catholics be pro-choice concerning abortion?

How about accepting homosexual sex acts and gay marriage, can Catholics be pro-choice on that?

Catholics can not “Be Practicing Catholics” and hold ANY of the positions you suggest.

Pro-choice is MURDER the Fitfth Commandment

Homosexual acts and gay “UNIONS” [marriage is reservered to one man nd one women"] is a violation of the sixth and ninth Commandments.

Should one be at odds with these positions SUCH A PERSON would be at odds with God Himself; not only the Church he founded.

Same with Conterpective sex in and out of marriage.

Each commandment is some manner offers a moral option.

Love and prayers,

Pat