Ok. Now you’ve done it. LOL! Forcing The Grape to get out the “big guns.”
Here’s a Catechism review:
According to the catechism text, This is the Faith: a Complete Explanation of the Catholic Faith, by Canon Francis J. Ripley, who is priest of the Catholic Missionary Society; text Imprimatured, many of you are in danger of breaking the Sixth Commandment through immodesty.
On page 89 and 90 of This is The Faith, Father Canon Ripley writes,
"In addition to adultery, the Sixth Commandment forbids all sins of impurity. “For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is the serving of idols) had inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” (Eph. 5:5). “Ambition was the sin of the Angels, avarise the sin of men, impurity th sin of the beast,” St. Bernard used to say. The great Saints of God went to extraordinary lengths to preserve their purity. St. Benedict rolled in the briars; St. Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow; St. Bernard plunged into a pond.
Thus, the Sixth Comandment forbits immodesty in:
a). LOOKS: The eyes are the windows of the soul and immodest looks, e.g., at pictures, scantily clothed people, etc., are dangerous and therefore forbidden.
b) WORDS: “But now put you all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth” (Col: 3:8). An immodest tongue is the devil’s carriage because it carries souls to Hell for him. With our lips we are meant to praise God forever, for all eternity. How wrong it is, therefore, to defile them now by impure talk, which often involves the souls of others in sin!
c)ACTIONS: Alone or with others.
It is obvious form what has been said that immodest dances, songs, books, pictures, plays, movies, TV shows, and websites are all forbidden by the Sixth Commandment. The question is often asked about the immorality of viewing nudity in art museums, or even in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. True art is never suggestive to impurity, objectively speaking. Hence, viewing true are is justified and edifying, so long as the viewer is spiritually mature enough to do so without turning such viewing into an occasion of sin."
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