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To: markomalley
I read the Catholic World Report link... got to tell you I personally resent the high and lavish praise claiming credit for giving and doing the most... especially given how much legalized charity we Americans have given...

But it is not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection. That can really lie only in a humanization of sexuality.

Supposedly these are 'HIS' words according to your link...now there was no instruction given as to what humanization of sexuality means....

As a parent I cannot begin to formulate in my mind what was supposedly said in a clear and concise terms to my children. It is like words, words, words, on this hand, and then on that hand, and maybe, perhaps, possibly on and on and on.... 'evil' was not identified as origination but only the results... It is like liberals pouring $$$$ into their 'war' on poverty to keep poverty sustainable.

17 posted on 11/20/2010 7:33:42 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
Supposedly these are 'HIS' words according to your link...now there was no instruction given as to what humanization of sexuality means....

And that is a fair criticism.

It should be taken in direct contrast to the banalization of sexuality mentioned immediately above:

This means that the sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalization of sexuality, which, after all, is precisely the dangerous source of the attitude of no longer seeing sexuality as the expression of love, but only a sort of drug that people administer to themselves. This is why the fight against the banalization of sexuality is also a part of the struggle to ensure that sexuality is treated as a positive value and to enable it to have a positive effect on the whole of man’s being.

The Catholic Church has, since the time of Christ, taught that sex is to be for unitive and procreative purposes. Unitive = "and the two shall become one flesh" and Procreative = "be fruitful and multiply". The pleasure associated with it is the effect that God built in to encourage married people to do so. (And, yes, I can probably think of more examples than you can where notable people didn't live up to what they should do. That doesn't change the teaching. It just shows where people are fallen). People indiscriminately engaging in sex solely to achieve that effect rather than for its purpose support its banalization.

The humanization of sex is simply placing sex in the human context that God intended for it when He made humans.

Yes, I'd have wished that he would have expounded on that in an interview that was destined to go into a mass publication book for a general audience, but he didn't.

18 posted on 11/20/2010 7:48:22 PM PST by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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