YOUCAT Lesson 415
YOUCAT the catechism
for Catholic youth
415 What is the Church’s
judgment on homosexuality?
God created man as male and female and destined them for
each other in a bodily way as well. The
Church accepts without reservation those who experience homosexual
feelings. They (persons who experience
homosexual feelings) should not be unjustly discriminated against because of
that. At the same time, the Church
declares that all homosexual relations in any form are contrary to the order of
creation. [2358-2359] 65
While then a
cardinal Pope Francis viewed morality in the context of an encounter with
Christ that is "triggered" by mercy": "the privileged locus
of the encounter is the caress of the mercy of Jesus Christ on my sin."
And thus, he says, a new morality—a correspondence to mercy—is born. He views
this morality as a "revolution": it is "not a titanic effort of
the will", but "simply a response" to a "surprising,
unforeseeable, and 'unjust' mercy". Morality is "not a 'never falling
down' but an 'always getting up again.'"
Photo from L’Osservatore Romano/AP ….. 415
[2358-2359]
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. –Catechism of
the Catholic Church, Second Edition
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. --CCC
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