Posted on 05/12/2021 5:46:39 PM PDT by Marchmain
A “glitch”?
Riiiiiight.
How long is that thing?
2865 paragraphs.
I just pulled up the Vatican’s online version of the Catechism and it still contains the phrase, “which is objectively disordered.” I don’t believe this was ever changed.
And some “paragraphs” are really short— no more than a single short sentence.
An earlier version of the catechism?
That must mean it says different things that the later one.
All from then*church* that never changes.
The first Catholic Catechism was written after the Council of Trent. It was published in 1566 and called the Roman Catechism. A new catechism was not created until 1994, called The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Other bishops in various parts of the world have produced catechisms, such as the Baltimore Catechism of 1885.
That’s the way it SHOULD read.
Any conservative Christian should be pleased with the Catechism’s explanation of homosexuality. And frankly, the missing clause serves only to prevent charlaitans from citing only one paragraph in isolation:
“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.
“2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
“2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”
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