Monday, August 17, 2015
YOUCAT commented through CCC. Question n. 65 Part I.
(Youcat
answer) The Church believes that, in the order of creation, man and woman are
designed to need each other’s complementary traits and to enter into a mutual
relationship so as to give life to children. That is why homosexual practices
cannot be approved by the Church. Christians owe all persons respect and love,
however, regardless of their sexual orientation, because all people are
respected and loved by God.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 2357)
Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience
an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex.
It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different
cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself
on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity
(Cf. Gen 191-29; Rom 124-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10), tradition has always
declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered" (CDF, Persona humana 8). 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.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) There is no
man on earth who is not descended from a union of a mother and a father.
Therefore it is a painful experience for many homosexually oriented people that
they do not feel erotically attracted to the opposite sex and necessarily miss
out on the physical fruitfulness of the union between man and woman according
to human nature and the divine order of creation. Nevertheless, God often leads
souls to himself along unusual paths: a lack, a loss, or a wound—if
accepted and affirmed—can become a
springboard for throwing oneself into the arms of God: the God who brings good
out of everything and whose greatness can be discovered in redemption even more
than in creation.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2360)
Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man and woman. In marriage the
physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual
communion. Marriage bonds between baptized persons are sanctified by the
sacrament. (CCC 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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