Posted on 10/04/2015 11:02:34 AM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, October 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - Our Voice of the Family team here in Rome for the Family Synod attended a lecture today from Cardinal Pell at the Angelicum, "Living the Truth in Love", an international conference and resource event to address pastoral approaches toward men and women with homosexual tendencies.
In a powerful, compassionate, address, His Eminence said:
"Too little is known about the Church's teaching on homosexuality*".
Quoting in full the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2357 - 2359, Cardinal Pell said:
"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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It appears to me that Pope Francis also needs to read these parts of the Catholic Catechism and then teach them and ensure they are taught by all.
This Pope is very “selective” in his readings.
It’s on. My pastor thinks Francis is playing a clever game of Jesuit jujitsu. I love my pastor but told him Francis is at the heart of the problem. I go easy because it’s tough to be a priest with obligations to obedience, and because I don’t need to win this argument, as the truth will be undeniable soon enough.
> “They close the sexual act to the gift of life. “
It’s worse than you can imagine.
Whenever you might hear the refrain that homosexuals must recruit because they cannot reproduce, hear this:
A homosexual couple of women go to a sperm bank and select sperm given by a man self-identifying as a homosexual or in certain instances a homosexual man known to the homosexual women.
Artificial insemination ensues and a baby or babies are born.
The heterosexuals who think they alone have access to the gift of life are wrong.
Homosexuals are perverted not just in their sexual acts but in all their thinking. They now have the means to get on without the elements of heterosexuality which they abhor.
That means they are free to think of a future free of heterosexuals.
That means they can engage in perverse diabolical thinking that heterosexuals should be exterminated.
This entire subject stems from the Evil One. Never forget that.
Therefore, the Catholic Church or any Church that purports to open a door or adapt a modernist view on the homosexual are playing with fire. It will not turn out well under any circumstance.
Without the commercial, lab-based breeding technologies, the radical gay and feminist-separatist dream of a non-hetero utopia falls flat into the futility and sterility which it embodies.
Even when used by "straight" people, these technolgies are predicated on the de-personalization of sex and the dehumanization of the "product of conception."
Yes.....but with this Pope, look for that to change!!!
Interesting. Do you have any links to Pope Francis’ statements on artificial reproductive technologies?
Missouri synod Lutherans share these beliefs. The R.Cs. are not alone.
this Pope, like the VAST majority of them, will do just fine, thank you.......People need to stop misinterpreting what he says and reading between the lines....He will not change doctrine, dogma, scripture....nothing important. His views, as a person, are of no particular interest to me....global warming, income redistribution, whatever....these are views formulated by his background.....no harm, no foul.
not a chance!
Pretty much Church Doctrine.
In fact, everything I learn about you LCMS guys makes me respect y'all more and more.
What a refreshing point of view.
I believe you are correct, and the Church opposes these methods for the same reason it opposes homosexuality; because the natural transmission of life is missing. There are some methods of which the Church approves, but I believe they involve the couple working together, not just a woman being implanted in some impersonal way. The Church is against people treating babies as some sort of 'right', and getting them however they can, as opposed to them being a gift of God.
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