Sexual acts done for pleasure alone (even a passionate kiss) are mortally sinful. Pope Alexander VII condemned the opinion: "It is a probable opinion which states that a kiss is only venial when performed for the sake of the carnal and sensible delight which arises from the kiss, if danger of further consent and pollution is excluded." (Denzinger 1140)
Whoa.
Then what about the kissing and other stuff that goes on in the movies and on television?
Should a person who professes to be Catholic, Orthodox, or place Scripture in high regard even be watching that on the screen?
Educate me here. All we see in advertisements, during television shows and on the 'big screen' are then -- mortally sinful? And the actors and actresses?? No wonder Scientology and other cults have infiltrated Hollywood.
Then what about the kissing and other stuff that goes on in the movies and on television? It has been said elsewhere that these media are generally a moral sewer.
Should a person who professes to be Catholic, Orthodox, or place Scripture in high regard even be watching that on the screen?
Probably not a lot of the drama and sitcom type shows. Even where the action is not lewd, it is still voyuerisitic.
All we see in advertisements, during television shows and on the 'big screen' are then -- mortally sinful?
Some is and some isn't. However, the prevelance of snful activity in the course of an acting career is what caused the early Church in Roman times to forbid Christians to be actors. Acting in the generally offered fair of today appears to be incompatible with a consistent profession of the faith, as Mel Gibson has discovered.