Why does the Catholic church teach that being homosexual is wrong?

Question

I just dont understand and would like to, although im never going to think itrs wrong. Also why dont they have women priests and do priests really never masturbate?

ok but when i say teach i mean they tell people it, just like teachers tell us 2 +2 = 4

actually animals do, or at least i think they do, i heard most giraffes are bi-sexual but who knows.
why are there so many gay people if it is wrong? and why would God make it possible for us to love everyone if we cannot love and be sexual with the same sex

I am not homosexual as far as i know just cant believe it is wrong.
I dont think it is a sin! so is kissing someone of the same sex a sin? or kissing anyone if you are not married to them?

Answer 1

Well first of all, Catholics are not the only ones who teach that homosexual acts are sinful (merely being tempted is not a sin). All the major religions of the world, including Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddism, condemn it.

God clearly teaches us about homosexuality in the Natural Law, in Scripture and in the writings of the Church Fathers.

1. Natural Law - Gay sex is clearly unnatural. It can produce no offspring. The main end of intercourse is reproduction, therefore homosexuality violates the main purpose of human sexuality. Even the body parts of men and women naturally show that they were meant to go together. For men to copulate, they must engage in unnatural and twisted acts. And for gay women, intercourse is physically impossible.

2. Scripture - There are numerous passages in both the Old and New Testaments which clearly condemn homosexual sex. (1 Cor 6:9, Lev 18:22, Lev 20:13, Deut. 23:17 and others)

3. Church Fathers - There was so much written by early Christian theologians about the immorality of homosexual sex, that I cannot put it all here. You can read quotes and passages here:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Early_Teachings_on_Homosexuality.asp

Pax Vobiscum +

Answer 2

RC's don't believe BEING a homosexual is wrong. They do condemn sodomy and other homosexual acts because they are contrary to natural law. In other words, homosexual sex isn't the way sex is supposed to be for the good and the continuation of the human species. The jury's still out on why some men are sexually attracted to other men (ditto for women).

Not opening the priesthood to women is a decision the Church has made repeatedly since the beginning. It's not a question of dogma, just government. They believe Jesus could have made priests of at least some of his female followers, but didn't. Women were extremely prominent in Jesus' crowd and in the very early Church, but the apostles and their successors never 'ordained' any of them priests, deacons, or bishops. Basically, the RC Church feels bound by the decision of its founder.

Answer 3

It does not believe that being homosexual is sin but it does believe that homosexual physical sex is sin full, but not homosexual love. However their teaching on the physical sex part is the result of an age old prejudice that dates back thousands of years. Many people do not believe it is (same sex activity) sin full and that being homosexual is a part of the natural order of things. The bible is often used to condemn homosexual sex but it often interpreted through the bias's of the intrepretere.,including the church fathers. Also they interprete it without regard to the historical conditions as well as the cultures and their then knowledge of the subject. Unfortunatly the other religions have also somewhat borrowed over that prejuduce but that was a result of Christian missionaries who brought that belief with them. Originaly, none of the other religions said anything. We must remember that people including many church leaders of all denominations have often supported the prejuduces of the majority be it racism, sexism, religionism or homophobia and are guilty of a great sin against a group of innocent people.

Answer 4

Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all men have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity.

The Catholic Church believes there is nothing sinful about being homosexual. But homosexuals like all unmarried people are called to celibacy.

The Church specifically says that homosexuals "must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided."

Here is the text of the document, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons (1986): http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_df86ho.htm

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 2357-2359: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art6.htm#2357

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

It is not only the Catholic church that teaches this but all Christian denominations do too, sodomy is an ancient sin that goes right back to the early Hebrew times and not to condemn this would be unfaithful to God.

The reason that women are not to be ordained is because they are not men. Sounds politically incorrect, doesn’t it? But the fact is that God created men to be men and women to be women. When God chose to incarnate, he did not just choose to become a human being; he chose to become a man. Just as he chose to incarnate into a specific time, place, people, family, and woman, so he chose to become a specific human being, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim. 2:5). Thus, those human beings who serve as priests in the person of Christ are men and not women.

This shocking particularity of God is not limited to choosing men to become priests. To demonstrate this to proponents of women’s ordination, you might turn the question around and ask them what it is about men that makes them unfit to bear children. Surely a man is just as physically strong as a woman and psychologically and emotionally capable of the demands of giving birth. Surely he is not inferior to a woman. Isn’t it unfair to men that only women can have babies?

This line of logic descends into absurdity, because women having children is a natural fact of life, something easily seen and understood. To shake one’s fist at the heavens and demand equal rights for men to give birth is to rail against the natural order. At that point you can establish that men being priests is a supernatural fact of life, and to object to it is to object to the supernatural order. The fact that the supernatural order cannot be seen and is not as easily understood as the natural order does not mean that the supernatural order does not exist

Answer 6

The Catholic church does not teach that being homosexual is a sin. It teaches that homosexual acts are wrong, just like any other sexual act outside the bonds of marriage.

Here is one of the official teachings that might interest you (there are more).

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.

Answer 7

It is a sin and is against God's will in our lives. We still love those who are lost in this sin just as those lost in any other sin. The Church will never teach that this is a lifestyle that is pleasing to God. Nor, will the Church ever ordain women to the priesthood. Priests are sinners too and some probably do break their vows but the vast majority are faithful to their vows.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 8

Not just Catholiscism, but Islam, as well as other main world religions. The Dalai Lama has made very harsh denunciations about homosexuality, for example, but for some reason he seems to get away with it.

Answer 9

I FELT I SHOULD TRY AND GIVE AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION, ALTHOUGH IT IS VERY HARD TO DO SO.
THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES US THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL HIMSELF THAT IS THE ABOMINATION BUT THE ACT OF HOMOSEXUALITY.
THAT IS WHY SODOM AND GOMORAH WERE DESTROYED.
WE CAN STILL LOVE ALL OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS AS THE LORD TAUGHT US, AND WE MUST NOT JUDGE.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOES NOT HAVE WOMAN PRIESTS BECAUSE EACH PRIEST IS SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHRIST, AND REMAIN AS HE DID.

Answer 10

Don't think homosexual itself is at fault.
When it were blunders and slip-ups with human errors in the creation of living human kind into mankind to be the Son of God.
The problems is the activity of social living that is against our creator's universal laws in avoiding the self destruction of one self.
Leviticus 18.1-30
While one can still continue on living in trying to be the Son of God.
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
What do you think?