Nothing has changed except some people are looking for loopholes to justify continuing such a sin.Looking up views on this subject I read answers from individuals and those answers are now 5 years old. What does the church say on this matter. A lot has changed in the past five years and this subject is very important to many males .
Utter nonsense. How long will you persist in peddling this rubbish? I would imagine God is not that bothered by masturbation. To suggest he is shows naivety in the extreme and actually diminishes him as Creator because it implies he doesn’t exist out of time and is not all-knowing. This is a natural biological function and is difficult to avoid at the normal time. I am not a medical person or a scientist, but I realise that there is a reason these urges occur, though I cannot explain why. Therefore you cannot apply an ‘across the board’ condemnation of this ‘sin’.Nothing has changed except some people are looking for loopholes to justify continuing such a sin.
Masturbation was, is, and will always be a sin of grave matter. That is an infallible teaching of the Church and can never change.
I must admit, I find this very amusing. The idea that we go and confess our ‘sins’ to another fallible human being, prone to the same urges as the rest of us. Yes, I know, it’s ‘unCatholic’: I must not use the brain God gave me because I am Catholic. But, you know what, I really don’t give a stuff what you think. In the words of Christ to Thomas a Kempis: “do not ascribe virtue to any man”. “No-one is good but God”.but yes, frequent confessions, to the same priest who knows your struggles, plays a big help. Peace!
Hi norman99,Looking up views on this subject I read answers from individuals and those answers are now 5 years old. What does the church say on this matter. A lot has changed in the past five years and this subject is very important to many males .
Source: vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm#23522352 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."138 “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."139 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.
Perhaps he has a Youcat. There could be some confusion there…the church is clear on this sin. do you have a catechism?
Masturbation is a sin of grave matter and that is an infallible teaching of the Church. Any Catholic who rejects this teaching commits heresy. You private opinion contradicts the infallible Church teaching on this and you going around telling people its okay to masturbate because it doesn’t really bother God is frankly shocking.Utter nonsense. How long will you persist in peddling this rubbish? I would imagine God is not that bothered by masturbation. To suggest he is shows naivety in the extreme and actually diminishes him as Creator because it implies he doesn’t exist out of time and is not all-knowing. This is a natural biological function and is difficult to avoid at the normal time. I am not a medical person or a scientist, but I realise that there is a reason these urges occur, though I cannot explain why. Therefore you cannot apply an ‘across the board’ condemnation of this ‘sin’.
I must admit, I find this very amusing. The idea that we go and confess our ‘sins’ to another fallible human being, prone to the same urges as the rest of us. Yes, I know, it’s ‘unCatholic’: I must not use the brain God gave me because I am Catholic. But, you know what, I really don’t give a stuff what you think. In the words of Christ to Thomas a Kempis: “do not ascribe virtue to any man”. “No-one is good but God”.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We only need to live by the Ten Commandments and the new commandment Jesus gave us. We don’t need these stupid medieval man-made rules. We all live by the Commandments without even thinking about them, even ‘atheists’. We know when we have flouted those rules: some people instantly, others deep down. This other stuff may have had it’s place in another era, but the modern world is different.
Best wishes,
Padster