WARNING: This article assumes you hold the teachings of the Catholic Church to be true and willingly profess the Act of Faith:
O MY GOD, I firmly believe that Thou art one God in Three Divine Persons, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I believe that Thy Divine Son became Man, and died for our sins, and that He will come to judge the living and the dead. **I believe these and all the truths which the Holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived. **[italics and bold added]
In his latest flight interview, Francis referred to gayness as a "condition".
Cindy Wooden, CNS [questioner]: Holiness, within the past few days Cardinal Marx, the German, speaking at a large conference in Dublin which is very important on the Church in the modern world, said that the Catholic Church must ask forgiveness to the gay community for having marginalized these people. In the days following the shooting in Orlando, many have said that the Christian community had something to do with this hate toward these people. What do you think?
Pope Francis: I will repeat what I said on my first trip. I repeat what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: that they must not be discriminated against, that they must be respected and accompanied pastorally. One can condemn, but not for theological reasons, but for reasons of political behavior...Certain manifestations are a bit too offensive for others, no? ... But these are things that have nothing to do with the problem. The problem is a person that has a condition, that has good will and who seeks God, who are we to judge? And we must accompany them well...this is what the catechism says, a clear catechism.
Since Francis referred us to the Catechism as the basis of his statement, lets look at two bottom lines in our faith about sex and marriage:
From the 1891 Baltimore Catechism:
Q. 1010. What are the chief ends of the Sacrament of Matrimony?
A. The chief ends of the Sacrament of matrimony are:
- To enable the husband and wife to aid each other in securing the salvation of their souls;
- To propagate or keep up the existence of the human race by bringing children into the world to serve God.
- To prevent sins against the holy virtue of purity by faithfully obeying the laws of the marriage state.
and from the USCCB CCC on vatican.va:
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.
2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.
On the basis of new catechisms being the product of too much influence from Freemasonry, psychology and rationalization, these are the only references I will depend on for my arguments.
**Even if **homosexuality is a "condition", as Francis states, which implies one can be "born gay", the main problems of fornication and the impossibility of procreation in marriage are still the issue when it comes to the teachings of the Catholic Church. But this is besides the point I would like to make in this article.
A child's conscience, properly formed in the Church, before the institution of education fell out of the hands of the Church, would reverberate these teachings when confronted with the beckoning of lust toward another person, regardless of the sex of that other person.
The problem, contrary to Francis' statement, is not the "condition" of homosexuality (being "born gay"), but, rather, the human condition of tendency towards sin. Consider the Baltimore Catechism teachings about capital sin:
Q. 313. Why are the seven sources of sin called capital sins?
A. The seven sources of sin are called capital sins because they rule over our other sins and are the causes of them.
Q. 314. What do we mean by our predominant sin or ruling passion?
A. By our predominant sin, or ruling passion, we mean the sin into which we fall most frequently and which we find it hardest to resist.
Q. 315. How can we best overcome our sins?
A. We can best overcome our sins by guarding against our predominant or ruling sin.
Q. 316. Should we give up trying to be good when we seem not to succeed in overcoming our faults?
A. We should not give up trying to be good when we seem not to succeed in overcoming our faults, because our efforts to be good will keep us from becoming worse than we are.
Q. 317. What virtues are opposed to the seven capital sins?
A. Humility is opposed to pride; generosity to covetousness; chastity to lust; meekness to anger; temperance to gluttony; brotherly love to envy, and diligence to sloth.
Every one of us has at least one capital sin that leans us toward our lifelong challenge to maintain a state of grace.
In previous discussions with friends, I dared make correlations between addictions and homosexuality, which, of course, came a little too close to the forbidden idea that engaging in homosexual activity is a sin. Addiction is a disorder brought upon a person who allows indulgence to go unchecked for too long. The resulting "condition" is the person becomes virtually unable to stop indulging in a behavior, mostly because they have developed a whole system of rationale (commonly referred to as "web of lies") to support their decisions to continual give in to temptation. Attractions to other people in childhood are the first seeds of lust (a capital sin) that calls the child's well-formed conscience to automatically induce fear of displeasing God. God provides the gift of guilt as a way for us to know we have crossed a line into sin and so, the child whose priority is pleasing God (if it is), "obeys" the prompting of the Holy Ghost to restrain themselves by exercising self-control.
Unfortunately, most childrens' consciences have been "formed" by Freemason principles, which is the scourge of the century, both inside and outside the Church, in my opinion, given to us by God because of our "willingness to believe lies". In 2 Thessalonians 2:
10 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:
11 That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.
One example is the Second Vatican Council, where Freemason infiltrators changed Church teaching and the majority of Catholics "went along" with it, despite the outright heresies. Still, this fact does not excuse the justification and rationalizations that make a child choose to indulge in lust. Take a moment to read a short page addressing Natural or Divine Law, which explains why, even without proper formation of conscience, we are accountable for sins committed:
I, myself, am a perfect product of this period culminating in the successful dissolution of values in our culture and, especially, in our Church, by Freemasonry - concepts fraught with false, misconstrued, co-dependent definitions, like Jesus isn't divine, love fixes everything and nothing really matters. Born in 1959 and educated in Catholic schools from kindergarten to sophomore year of college, all within Vatican II, I've virtually spent a lifetime battling my tendencies toward sin in an effort to please God. Thankfully, God has afforded me tremendous graces enabling me in my daily attempt to maintain a state of grace. I even complained for a long time that the Church marginalized me, because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't seem to get into the center of the Church - I was always on the outskirts. Today, by the grace of God, I have the honesty to admit I was the one who marginalized myself. Good old God-given guilt prevented me from freely and fully associating with those in my faith. My conscience was not clear.
Francis has clearly fallen for the lie prevalent in the gay community that they were born gay. I beg to differ...
MB
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