How should we understand these statements from the Catechism of the Catholic Church?

Question

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, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” 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 circumstance can they be approved.

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.

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.

Rikirailrd, can you explain how this statement does not coincide with the truth in the Bible?

Budding author, your claims about sexuality in Catholicism are not accurate.

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.

2361 "Sexuality, by means of which man and woman give themselves to one another through the acts which are proper and exclusive to spouses, is not something simply biological, but concerns the innermost being of the human person as such. It is realized in a truly human way only if it is an integral part of the love by which a man and woman commit themselves totally to one another until death."

Answer 1

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

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

First, that would entail examining greater suitable than in simple terms the quoted area _and_ remembering it. In different words, they might could make examining the Catechism as substantial as, say, examining the Bible. I also have a replica of the Catechism and on an identical time as i've got performed some finding in it, to be hassle-free, there are sections the place the translations are relatively undesirable, as though the guy(s) doing the translating did no longer comprehend the English language. besides, like the later creeds, i detect confusion and contradiction. To me, on an identical time as i detect the Catechism a invaluable reference gadget, it is impossible _for me_ to examine devoid of having pissed off. yet then, i'm no longer Catholic, the two. As on your question, this may be a difficulty-unfastened tactic of critics everywhere: use sound bites (or for that reason, remoted sentences) to denigrate those being quoted. it is an element of scare-crow or straw-guy construction that is going on each and every of the time. And it is a gadget of the commerce for people who declare to comprehend greater suitable than people who actively stay their faith.

Answer 3

It is my understanding that these positions are historically consistent with almost 2000 years of tradition and do not represent a new theological position on homosexuality by the Roman Catholic church.

An essential dilemma of human nature is the ease that "sexual energy" can be directed to tasks other than physical procreation (IE achieving ejaculation while the penis is in the vagina). That this energy is transferred to a loving relationship with the mother or father of your children and to the task of caring for and protecting those children and the society and social structures that foster their survival is a good thing. For some men the management of this transfer can be a real problem.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

"Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices."

"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." - Romans 1:27
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination." - Leviticus 18:22
"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the Lord thy God." - Deuteronomy 22:5

Answer 6

"Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained." This part seems overly cautious. Homosexuality is largely learned behavior, like all the other ways people abuse sexuality.

Dennis Prager writes: Men have had sex with women and with men; with little girls and young boys; with a single partner and in large groups; with total strangers and immediate family members; and with a variety of domesticated animals. They have achieved orgasm with inanimate objects such as leather, shoes, and other pieces of clothing, through urinating and defecating on each other (interested readers can see a photograph of the former at select art museums exhibiting the works of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe); by dressing in women's garments; by watching other human beings being tortured; by fondling children of either sex; by listening to a woman's disembodied voice (e.g., "phone sex"); and, of course, by looking at pictures of bodies or parts of bodies.
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/PragerHomosexuality.shtml

"Tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.' They are contrary to the natural law." Certainly true, for God created humans male and female, and created sex as the means of reproduction and intimacy. Since human young take about two decades to grow into adults, our species requires a long-term, sexually exclusive, monogamous mating to create a stable and educating home.

CDF

Answer 7

You have one answer saying this translates into a basic form of acceptance?
How that conclusion was reached I have no idea!
The only message I got from it all was that homosexuals should be pitied and they have a problem, the implication is also that homosexuality is not so bad as long as it is not practiced???
I cant see many taking up this advise.
As a religious group that also say Sex is for procreation only, and certainly not to be an act carried out without marriage , and should only be enjoyed because the idea is to produce babies! who in their right mind is going to listen to that waffle!
Birth control is also taboo of course, the logic behind that is quite simple, if sex is only for procreation why would folk need birth control.
The whole concept is archaic, imagine the husband saying to his wife "Lets have an early night tonight lover" The wife replies "But darling I have given you 8 children already"!!! Unbelievable.
I think it's time I moved back to my own planet , I've seen just about every thing here on earth.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It means that it is not wrong or totally freakish to be a homosexual, but that it is wrong to practice homosexuality, so these persons must be chaste to stay in the state of grace. They can offer up their suffering (from having to practice abstinence and not marry as they would like) in unison with the suffering of Christ to atone for sins.

edit: It also calls heterosexuals to respect homosexuals and treat them equally because they are equal in dignity.

I fully agree with this teaching.

Answer 10

We should understand that the roman catholic church wants to control every aspect of your life, including your sexuality.