N
nuntym
Guest
+JMJ+
DaddyGirl, I would appreciate it if you would answer out of quotes, as it would be much easier to answer.
CCC 2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.”
To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
DaddyGirl, I would appreciate it if you would answer out of quotes, as it would be much easier to answer.
Yes it would affect church doctrine subjectively (how it applies to a person), not objectively (what those doctrines are exactly).
Your exact words were: “For example, if you marry one person in the church when you are very young and you don’t make a wise choice.” If the Church finds that the parties involved in a marriage were of insufficient maturity to have fully consented to a marriage, then she would declare the marriage “annulled” (that is, there actually wasn’t a valid marriage in the first place).
We are not privy to the FULL details of that case so I do not think that is a good example to use.
It would, again, change the subjectivity of the doctrine, not objectivity. Case in point: masturbation.
CCC 2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.”
To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
Addiction also changes the brain structure of a person, but does that lessen the objective moral depravity of it? And if pedophilia was shown to have an organic cause (i.e. there is a difference in the brain structures of pedophiles compared to other people), will that lessen its moral depravity?
