Friday, May 17, 2013
492. What are the principal sins against chastity? (part 1)
(Comp 492) Grave sins against chastity differ according to their object: adultery,
masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution, rape, and homosexual
acts. These sins are expressions of the vice of lust. These kinds of acts
committed against the physical and moral integrity of minors become even more
grave.
“In brief”
(CCC 2394) Christ is the model of chastity. Every baptized
person is called to lead a chaste life, each according to his particular state
of life. (CCC 2395) Chastity means the integration of sexuality within the
person. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery. (CCC 2396) Among the
sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography,
and homosexual practices.
To deepen and
explain
(CCC 2351) Lust is
disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual
pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its
procreative and unitive purposes.
Reflection
(CCC 2352) By masturbation
is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order
to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the
course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been
in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically
and gravely disordered action" (CDF, Persona
humana 9). "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever
reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For
here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which
is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual
self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved"
(CDF, Persona humana 9). To form an
equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide
pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of
acquired habit, conditions of anxiety, or other psychological or social factors
that can lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability. [IT CONTINUES]
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