Posted on 07/29/2005 9:54:14 AM PDT by NYer
Stop playing games...
Of course they do.
As Aquinas pointed out, our natural capacity for truth is conditioned by our nature - God is infinite and we are finite.
We can only grasp so much.
The Church, unlike scholars, is not a purely human institution and has access to reliable truths.
It's not a game. I don't agree that all choices involve moral decision making. To claim that freedom is doing what one ought to do is ridiculous.
Welcome back!! Here's a JPII quote for your collection ...
“The Son of God became man in order to restore all creation, in one supreme act of praise, to the One who made it from nothing.” John Paul II
I suggest you if Catholic may require further education? Authentic freedom is only attained by adhering to truth -that which the Church teaches...What one ought to do is the path to freedom... capiche -nothing ridulous about it... The examples you argue that have no moral basis and as such irrelevant to anything save but moral relative gaming... I would suggest you also seek to understand the differrence between absolute truth and moral relative 'truth'...
It was de listed when homosexuals won a majority of the APA board. It of course played into the democratic political camp as the democrats needed to squeeze a few more votes into their multicultural tent.
Whether or not it is a disorder, it is certainly not wished for on the part of new parents. If a genetic or in womb cause is ever found one can be sure that homosexuality will be eradicated from the population as quickly as was polio. (When such an event occurs, watch how quickly homosexuality goes beyond normalcy and becomes something society cannot live without. But of course we can, it is normal society that homosexuality cannot live without.)
I'm glad to see this Pope speak out on these subjects. This frank discussion is long overdue in Europe as well as America.
China is too, outcome to follow.
Your reply:
I'm not sure about that last part. Don't religious scholars disagree on what God's law is?
Yes they do. But we're talking about the Pope, the Vicar of Christ.. Not just some religious scholar. On Faith and Morals he's speaking with the guidance of the Holy Ghost. And it's infallible.
Religious scholars may have any number of opinions. And they are just that, opinions. When the Pope speaks excathedra on these issues it's no longer an opinion. It's truth.
I'm a psychology major, but--alas--at a very politically correct time, so I doubt I'll hear about this in any classes and would probably get lynched if I asked. May I ask what the evidence is that supports homosexuality being related to OCD?
I agree with the Pope wholeheartedly.
It is interesting to see a Pope express such a defense of free speech.
Perhaps. However, in a political context, the government is a poor agent for determining what is "right" outside of a very narrow band (such as outlawing nonconsensual harm to person or property).
What dictionary is that from?
Well, isn't that the whole debate? As a Catholic, that is your position. However, no other religion accepts that claim (AFAIK).
The Catholic claim that the Pope speaks with the guidance of the Holy Ghost is only persuasive to Catholics.
When the Pope speaks excathedra on these issues it's no longer an opinion. It's truth.
For Catholics, sure.
This is just what I predicted.
Notice how they are trying to undermine the Pope by refusing to recognize him as the Pope? Instead, they refer to him as Pope in the opening sentence and then revert back to his Cardinal name for the rest of the article.
When has the media EVER done that before?
-PJ
The morning of the Conclave, Cardinal Ratzinger said the Mass and delivered a amazing homily, in which he commented:
"How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.
Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires."
May God answer you prayer ;-D
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