Yes. The Catholic church is very clear on sins. The Catholic Catechism provides the teachings of the Church.
Why are you so concerned to judge the sins of others or the actions of others in the Catholic Church? Are your sins public and subject to scrutiny? Should we not follow Jesus teachings of Loving God and our neighbor as our self?
Well put. He does sound judgmental, doesn't he? Sounds like anti-Catholicism to me. Not a new thing.
> Are your sins public and subject to scrutiny?
I have confessed my sins AS sins and have begged the forgiveness of God, and my fellow man.
Homosexuals are blatantly unrepentant and want their sin to be accepted as normal behavior regardless of the Biblical proscriptions against same.
> Should we not follow Jesus teachings of Loving God and
> our neighbor as our self?
Is it truly loving your neighbor if you don’t tell him he’s about to back his car off a cliff, metaphorically speaking?
It’s one thing to welcome sinners into the church to hear the good news. Of course, the good news does not make sense unless contrasted against the bad news that you are a sinner and must repent or burn forever in a devil’s hell. That includes repenting from homosexuality, serial polygamy, and abortion, as well as blasphemy, idolatry, lying, stealing, adultery, and murder.
If you’re not sorry for your sins, then what need have you of a Savior? May as well go to a UU church or a country club.
> Why are you so concerned to judge the sins of others
Some of the most judgmental people I have every encountered are those that judge others as being judgmental simply for recognizing sin as sin.
“The Catholic church is very clear on sins. The Catholic Catechism provides the teachings of the Church”
I guarantee you that the words “intrinsically disordered” referring to homosexual acts will be taken out of the CCC. Then I take myself out of these current regime of Francis. I became a Catholic because the Church stood for truth and called a sin a sin, and it didn’t conform to the world like so many protestant faiths. If that changes I’m gone. I’ll become a member of the Society of St. Pius.
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 [Cf. Gen 19:1-29; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10], tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.”[Cf.
Persona Humana
] 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.