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Homosexuality is a disorder, former Vatican prefect emphasizes [CWN]
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Houro
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More people need to speak out about this instead of brushing homosexuality under the carpet and letting it be treated as ‘normal’. It is a defect/illness and if more people talk about it in this way then people might start trying to get help instead of embracing it as a detrimental lifestyle…
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irishpatrick
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That statement should not be a shock to any Catholic. Here is what the Catechism says:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
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timotheos
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Perhaps we Catholics would not have this fight on our hands if we had protested a bit more strongly against the moral decline in* heterosexual *behavior over the decades. The Church in the 1970s and 80s seemed in retrospect very weak in responding to the rampant sex happening outside of marriage and the growing contraceptive culture; and once that horse was out of the barn, you rarely heard any condemnation from the pulpit. Marriage preparation was essentially nonexistant, even into the 1990s in some areas. Seems that now that heterosexual relations and marriages are in shambles sociologically and culturally, at least we can still point objectively at the disordered nature of homosexuality? On what grounds can we justify limiting our criticism to homosexuality?The gay community in Chile is reacting with indignation to recent comments by 83-year-old Cardinal Jorge Medina Estévez, who led the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of …
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We live in such a moral cesspool ourselves, and need to preach actively and constantly against all forms of profanation of God’s gift of sexuality.
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