Posted on 03/03/2023 6:01:35 PM PST by marshmallow
Responding to critics of his January article on “radical inclusion“ for “LGBT people, women, and others in the Catholic Church,” Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego characterized “the moral tradition in the church that all sexual sins are grave matter” as a 17th-century innovation that is “jarringly inconsistent with the larger universe of Catholic moral teaching.”
“For most of the history of the church, various gradations of objective wrong in the evaluation of sexual sins were present in the life of the church,” Cardinal McElroy wrote in an article published on March 2 in the Jesuit periodical America. “But in the 17th century, with the inclusion in Catholic teaching of the declaration that for all sexual sins there is no parvity of matter (i.e., no circumstances can mitigate the grave evil of a sexual sin), we relegated the sins of sexuality to an ambit in which no other broad type of sin is so absolutely categorized.”
“In principle, all sexual sins are objective mortal sins within the Catholic moral tradition,” he continued. “This means that all sins that violate the sixth and the ninth commandments are categorically objective mortal sins ... So, it is precisely this change in Catholic doctrine—made in the 17th century—that is the foundation for categorically barring L.G.B.T. and divorced/remarried Catholics from the Eucharist.”
He added:
The moral tradition that all sexual sins are grave matter springs from an abstract, deductivist and truncated notion of the Christian moral life that yields a definition of sin jarringly inconsistent with the larger universe of Catholic moral teaching. This is because it proceeds from the intellect alone.
In making his argument, Cardinal McElroy did not cite any widespread protests from 17th-century bishops and theologians that doubtless would have emerged if Catholic teaching had been altered—rather than developed, refined, or...............
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Just a matter of time before the heretics tell the world the bible isn’t true....The apostles use up stories...
Millstone material right there.
Mac is lying through his teeth. Christianity’s opposition to fornication, adultery and sodomy dates to the very beginning, cf. St Paul’s letters.
Wait for the heretic to tell us that the apostles were not real and the Bible was written by Trump fans........
Yes. In particular, 1 Corinthians 6:18. There's nothing "17th century" to the concept that Scripture teaches that there is something "special" to sexual sins.
And the synoptic Gospels before Paul
There’s a special place in hell for such treacherous shepherds....
and Genesis and Exodus before that.
They redefine I Corinthians 6:9 by claiming that, when Paul said homosexuality was a grievous sin, he was referring to homosexual prostitution.
This is at the heart of the United Methodist Church split.
On the flip side -it one has even thought about it, one has as good as done it...but, because of the Blood of Jesus, we can still be redeemed.
And that is just one of the reasons why Bergoglio has chosen his boy, McElroy, to be the U.S.'s latest cardinal.
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