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New Canadian bishops’ document seeks to rescue youth from ‘gay culture’
BY JOHN-HENRY WESTEN
Mon Jun 27, 2011 15:19 ESTComments (0)Tags: Catholic, Cccb, Homosexuality
OTTAWA, June 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A commission of the Canadian bishops today released a letter on pastoral ministry to young people with same-sex attraction.
“Scripture and Tradition teach that sexual relations between persons of the same sex are not in accord with God’s original intention expressed in the plan of creation,” says the document from The Commission for Doctrine of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB). “For this reason, the Church has consistently taught that homosexual acts can never be approved.”
The bishops repeatedly and emphatically reject any unjust discrimination against those with same-sex attraction. The Church, the document says, “carefully distinguishes between an individual’s inclinations or feelings … and one’s actions. While homosexual acts are always objectively wrong, same-sex inclinations are not in themselves sinful or a moral failing.”
The bishops reach out to parents of children with same-sex attraction, advising them that while counseling is advised, parents must be careful to select counselors faithful to authentic Catholic teaching on sexuality. “Ensure that professional counsellors or psychologists who see young people are distinguished by their sound human and spiritual maturity,” say the bishops. “They must be committed to the Christian vision of the human person and sexuality, as well as the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and chastity.”
Touching on the current controversial issue of education around topics of homosexuality, the bishops stress, “Parents have the principal moral responsibility of educating their sons and daughters in matters of human sexuality.” Addressing teachers, catechists and other educators, the document says, “you play a role insofar as you carry out your responsibilities in the name of the parents and with their consent.”
The teachers of faith and other educators are warned that misrepresentation and silence about the Church’s teaching that homosexual acts are immoral has grave consequences for youth experiencing same-sex attraction. “Avoidance of difficult questions or watering down the Church’s teaching is always a disservice,” it says. “Such attitudes could lead young people into grave moral danger.”
lifesitenews.com/news/new-canadian-bishops-document-seeks-to-rescue-youth-from-gay-culture
BY JOHN-HENRY WESTEN
Mon Jun 27, 2011 15:19 ESTComments (0)Tags: Catholic, Cccb, Homosexuality
OTTAWA, June 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A commission of the Canadian bishops today released a letter on pastoral ministry to young people with same-sex attraction.
“Scripture and Tradition teach that sexual relations between persons of the same sex are not in accord with God’s original intention expressed in the plan of creation,” says the document from The Commission for Doctrine of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB). “For this reason, the Church has consistently taught that homosexual acts can never be approved.”
The bishops repeatedly and emphatically reject any unjust discrimination against those with same-sex attraction. The Church, the document says, “carefully distinguishes between an individual’s inclinations or feelings … and one’s actions. While homosexual acts are always objectively wrong, same-sex inclinations are not in themselves sinful or a moral failing.”
The bishops reach out to parents of children with same-sex attraction, advising them that while counseling is advised, parents must be careful to select counselors faithful to authentic Catholic teaching on sexuality. “Ensure that professional counsellors or psychologists who see young people are distinguished by their sound human and spiritual maturity,” say the bishops. “They must be committed to the Christian vision of the human person and sexuality, as well as the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and chastity.”
Touching on the current controversial issue of education around topics of homosexuality, the bishops stress, “Parents have the principal moral responsibility of educating their sons and daughters in matters of human sexuality.” Addressing teachers, catechists and other educators, the document says, “you play a role insofar as you carry out your responsibilities in the name of the parents and with their consent.”
The teachers of faith and other educators are warned that misrepresentation and silence about the Church’s teaching that homosexual acts are immoral has grave consequences for youth experiencing same-sex attraction. “Avoidance of difficult questions or watering down the Church’s teaching is always a disservice,” it says. “Such attitudes could lead young people into grave moral danger.”
lifesitenews.com/news/new-canadian-bishops-document-seeks-to-rescue-youth-from-gay-culture