YOUCAT Lesson 410
YOUCAT the catechism for
Catholic youth
410 What is meant by
“fornication”?
Fornication (from Greek porneia) originally meant pagan
sexual practice, for instance, temple prostitution. Later the term was applied to all forms of
sexual activity outside of marriage.
Today in English it generally refers to consensual sexual relations
between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. [2353]
Paolo and Francesca whom Dante’s Inferno described
as as damned for fornication (by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1819). ….. 410
Fornication is often based on seduction, lies, violence,
dependency, and abuse. Fornication is
therefore a serious offense against charity; it harms the dignity of the person
and fails to recognize the meaning of human sexuality. Civil authorities have the duty to protect
minors especially from fornication.
THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
You have heard that it was said, "You shall not commit
adultery." But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully
has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:27-28.)114
2353 Fornication is carnal union between an
unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of
persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of
spouses and the generation and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave
scandal when there is corruption of the young.
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