‘The Sin of Sodom Was Inhospitality’ - A Response to This Lie
Dec 15, 2018 15:30:37 #
04/14/2014 ‘The Sin of Sodom Was Inhospitality’ - A Response to This Lie (Part 1)
Gary L. Morella
https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02jHomo&Clergy_Hospitality_Morella.html
Once at a School Board meeting I heard something that, as a Roman Catholic, I found to be so totally preposterous that I could not believe someone calling himself "Catholic" could be capable of making such a statement.
The person claiming to be a Catholic told the Board and the Community that “the sin of Sodom was inhospitality," that Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica
Challenged natural law arguments, and said that "homosexuality was natural, not unnatural” and that “homosexuality among animals is natural, not unnatural.”unnatural."
Doesn't it strike anyone as a little odd that God would nuke a city for a breach of manners?
Common sense dictates otherwise as God, in His mercy, would not destroy a city for inhospitality.
Throughout History, Jewish and Christian scholars of all persuasions have recognized that one of the chief sins that provoked God’s destruction of Sodom was its people's homosexual behavior.
But today certain homosexual activists advocate the idea that the sin of Sodom was merely a lack of hospitality.
Although inhospitality is a sin, it is clearly the homosexual behavior of Sodomites that is singled out for special criticism and prominence in the account of their city's destruction.
We must look to Scripture's own interpretation of the sin of Sodom.
Jude 7 records that Sodom and Gomorrah "acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust."
A public challenge
I would ask this psychologist to please give us the exact references in the Summa Theologica where Thomas Aquinas made the statements about homosexuality being "natural," as the kindest thing that Aquinas has to say about homosexuality is that it is the unnatural vice.
It should not be required to formally refute such outrageous, scandalous statements, but because of the confusion spawned by dissident theologians who would create their own heretical "magisterium" co-equal with that of Holy Mother Church, a response is in order.
I will let St. Thomas Aquinas respond directly through his own words in Summa Theologica (English translation of Christian Classics, 1948, Benzinger).
The clarity is unmistakable. First the Natural Law will be addressed, then homosexuality.
The teaching of St. Thomas on natural law
“Since, however, good has the nature of an end, and evil, the nature of a contrary, hence it is that all those things to which man has a natural inclination, are naturally apprehended by reason as being good, and consequently as objects of pursuit, and their contraries as evil, and objects of avoidance
“Because in man there is first of all an inclination to good in accordance with the nature which he has in common with all substances;
Inasmuch as every substance seeks the preservation of its own being, according to its nature:
And by reason of this inclination, whatever is a means of preserving human life, and of warding off its obstacles, belongs to the Natural Law.
"Secondly, there is in man an inclination to things that pertain to him more specially, according to that nature which he has in common with other animals:
And in virtue of this inclination, those things are said to belong to the Natural Law, which nature has taught to all animals, such as sexual intercourse, education of offspring and so forth.
“Thus man has a natural inclination to know the truth about God, and to live in society:
And in this respect, whatever pertains to this inclination belongs to the Natural Law.
(Summa Theologica, I-II, question 94, article 2).
St. Thomas categorically condemned the homosexual sin as contrary to nature
* “For it has been stated that to the Natural Law belongs everything to which a man is inclined according to his nature.
“Wherefore, since the rational soul is the proper form of man, there is in every man a natural inclination to act according to reason: and this is to act according to virtue.
“Temperance is about the natural concupiscences of food, drink, and sexual matters, which are indeed ordained to the natural common good, just as other matters of law are ordained to the moral common good.
“By human nature we may mean either that which is proper to man - and in this sense all sins, as being against reason, are also against nature, as Damascene states.
(De Fide Orthod. II. 30):
Or we may mean that nature which is common to man and other animals; and in this sense, certain special sins are said to be against nature;
Thus contrary to sexual intercourse, which is natural to all animals, is unisexual lust, which has received the special name of the unnatural crime (ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 3).
“Consequently we must say that the Natural Law, as to general principles, is the same for all, both as to rectitude and as to knowledge.
As, in man, reason rules and commands the other powers, so all the natural inclinations belonging to the other powers must needs be directed according to reason.
(ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 4).
“The Natural Law dates from the creation of the rational creature.
It does not vary according to time, but remains unchangeable.
The Natural Law was perverted in the hearts of some men, as to certain matters, so that they esteemed those things good which are naturally evil. (ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 5).
“Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. But the law which is written in men's hearts is the Natural Law.
Therefore the Natural Law cannot be blotted out.
“There belong to the Natural Law, first, certain most general precepts, that are known to all;
And secondly, certain secondary and more detailed precepts, which are, as it were, conclusions following closely from first principles.
As to those general principles, the Natural Law, in the abstract, can nowise be blotted out from men's hearts.
(ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 6).
St. Thomas on homosexuality
“The unnatural vice is a species of lust. It is reckoned together with other species of lust.
(2 Cor 12:21)
Where we read: 'And have not done penance for the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness,' where a gloss says: 'Lasciviousness, i.e., unnatural lust.'
“The venereal act is rendered unbecoming through being contrary to right reason, and because, in addition, it is contrary to the natural order of the venereal act as becoming to the human race:
And this is called the unnatural vice. This may happen by copulation with an undue sex, male with male, or female with female, as the Apostle states (Rom 1:27):
And this is called the vice of sodomy.
(Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 154, a. 11).
* “Augustine says (De adult. conjug.) that 'of all these,' namely the sins belonging to lust, 'that which is against nature is the worst.'
“I answer that, in every genus, worst of all is the corruption of the principle on which the rest depend.
Now the principles of reason are those things that are according to nature, because reason presupposes things as determined by nature, before disposing of other things according as it is fitting.
This may be observed both in speculative and in practical matters.
Wherefore just as in speculative matters the most grievous and shameful error is that which is about things the knowledge of which is naturally bestowed on man, so in matters of action it is most grave and shameful to act against things as determined by nature.
"Therefore, since by the unnatural vices man transgresses that which has been determined by nature with regard to the use of venereal actions, it follows that in this matter this sin is the gravest of all.
After it comes incest, which is contrary to the natural respect which we owe persons related to us.
“Just as the ordering of right reason proceeds from man, so the order of nature is from God Himself:
Wherefore in sins contrary to nature, whereby the very order of nature is violated, an injury is done to God, the Author of nature.
"Hence, Augustine says (Conf. III, 8):
'Those foul offenses that are against nature should be everywhere and at all times detested and punished, such as were those of the people of Sodom, which should all nations commit, they should all stand guilty of the same crime, by the law of God, which hath not so made men that they should so abuse one another.
For even that very intercourse which should be between God and us is violated, when that same nature, of which He is the author, is polluted by the perversity of lust.'
“Vices against nature are also against God, and are so much more grievous than the depravity of sacrilege, as the order impressed on human nature is prior to and more firm than any subsequently established order.
“The nature of the species is more intimately united to each individual, than any other individual is.
(End Part 1)
Gary L. Morella
https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02jHomo&Clergy_Hospitality_Morella.html
Once at a School Board meeting I heard something that, as a Roman Catholic, I found to be so totally preposterous that I could not believe someone calling himself "Catholic" could be capable of making such a statement.
The person claiming to be a Catholic told the Board and the Community that “the sin of Sodom was inhospitality," that Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica
Challenged natural law arguments, and said that "homosexuality was natural, not unnatural” and that “homosexuality among animals is natural, not unnatural.”unnatural."
Doesn't it strike anyone as a little odd that God would nuke a city for a breach of manners?
Common sense dictates otherwise as God, in His mercy, would not destroy a city for inhospitality.
Throughout History, Jewish and Christian scholars of all persuasions have recognized that one of the chief sins that provoked God’s destruction of Sodom was its people's homosexual behavior.
But today certain homosexual activists advocate the idea that the sin of Sodom was merely a lack of hospitality.
Although inhospitality is a sin, it is clearly the homosexual behavior of Sodomites that is singled out for special criticism and prominence in the account of their city's destruction.
We must look to Scripture's own interpretation of the sin of Sodom.
Jude 7 records that Sodom and Gomorrah "acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust."
A public challenge
I would ask this psychologist to please give us the exact references in the Summa Theologica where Thomas Aquinas made the statements about homosexuality being "natural," as the kindest thing that Aquinas has to say about homosexuality is that it is the unnatural vice.
It should not be required to formally refute such outrageous, scandalous statements, but because of the confusion spawned by dissident theologians who would create their own heretical "magisterium" co-equal with that of Holy Mother Church, a response is in order.
I will let St. Thomas Aquinas respond directly through his own words in Summa Theologica (English translation of Christian Classics, 1948, Benzinger).
The clarity is unmistakable. First the Natural Law will be addressed, then homosexuality.
The teaching of St. Thomas on natural law
“Since, however, good has the nature of an end, and evil, the nature of a contrary, hence it is that all those things to which man has a natural inclination, are naturally apprehended by reason as being good, and consequently as objects of pursuit, and their contraries as evil, and objects of avoidance
“Because in man there is first of all an inclination to good in accordance with the nature which he has in common with all substances;
Inasmuch as every substance seeks the preservation of its own being, according to its nature:
And by reason of this inclination, whatever is a means of preserving human life, and of warding off its obstacles, belongs to the Natural Law.
"Secondly, there is in man an inclination to things that pertain to him more specially, according to that nature which he has in common with other animals:
And in virtue of this inclination, those things are said to belong to the Natural Law, which nature has taught to all animals, such as sexual intercourse, education of offspring and so forth.
“Thus man has a natural inclination to know the truth about God, and to live in society:
And in this respect, whatever pertains to this inclination belongs to the Natural Law.
(Summa Theologica, I-II, question 94, article 2).
St. Thomas categorically condemned the homosexual sin as contrary to nature
* “For it has been stated that to the Natural Law belongs everything to which a man is inclined according to his nature.
“Wherefore, since the rational soul is the proper form of man, there is in every man a natural inclination to act according to reason: and this is to act according to virtue.
“Temperance is about the natural concupiscences of food, drink, and sexual matters, which are indeed ordained to the natural common good, just as other matters of law are ordained to the moral common good.
“By human nature we may mean either that which is proper to man - and in this sense all sins, as being against reason, are also against nature, as Damascene states.
(De Fide Orthod. II. 30):
Or we may mean that nature which is common to man and other animals; and in this sense, certain special sins are said to be against nature;
Thus contrary to sexual intercourse, which is natural to all animals, is unisexual lust, which has received the special name of the unnatural crime (ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 3).
“Consequently we must say that the Natural Law, as to general principles, is the same for all, both as to rectitude and as to knowledge.
As, in man, reason rules and commands the other powers, so all the natural inclinations belonging to the other powers must needs be directed according to reason.
(ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 4).
“The Natural Law dates from the creation of the rational creature.
It does not vary according to time, but remains unchangeable.
The Natural Law was perverted in the hearts of some men, as to certain matters, so that they esteemed those things good which are naturally evil. (ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 5).
“Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. But the law which is written in men's hearts is the Natural Law.
Therefore the Natural Law cannot be blotted out.
“There belong to the Natural Law, first, certain most general precepts, that are known to all;
And secondly, certain secondary and more detailed precepts, which are, as it were, conclusions following closely from first principles.
As to those general principles, the Natural Law, in the abstract, can nowise be blotted out from men's hearts.
(ibid., I-II, q. 94, a. 6).
St. Thomas on homosexuality
“The unnatural vice is a species of lust. It is reckoned together with other species of lust.
(2 Cor 12:21)
Where we read: 'And have not done penance for the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness,' where a gloss says: 'Lasciviousness, i.e., unnatural lust.'
“The venereal act is rendered unbecoming through being contrary to right reason, and because, in addition, it is contrary to the natural order of the venereal act as becoming to the human race:
And this is called the unnatural vice. This may happen by copulation with an undue sex, male with male, or female with female, as the Apostle states (Rom 1:27):
And this is called the vice of sodomy.
(Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 154, a. 11).
* “Augustine says (De adult. conjug.) that 'of all these,' namely the sins belonging to lust, 'that which is against nature is the worst.'
“I answer that, in every genus, worst of all is the corruption of the principle on which the rest depend.
Now the principles of reason are those things that are according to nature, because reason presupposes things as determined by nature, before disposing of other things according as it is fitting.
This may be observed both in speculative and in practical matters.
Wherefore just as in speculative matters the most grievous and shameful error is that which is about things the knowledge of which is naturally bestowed on man, so in matters of action it is most grave and shameful to act against things as determined by nature.
"Therefore, since by the unnatural vices man transgresses that which has been determined by nature with regard to the use of venereal actions, it follows that in this matter this sin is the gravest of all.
After it comes incest, which is contrary to the natural respect which we owe persons related to us.
“Just as the ordering of right reason proceeds from man, so the order of nature is from God Himself:
Wherefore in sins contrary to nature, whereby the very order of nature is violated, an injury is done to God, the Author of nature.
"Hence, Augustine says (Conf. III, 8):
'Those foul offenses that are against nature should be everywhere and at all times detested and punished, such as were those of the people of Sodom, which should all nations commit, they should all stand guilty of the same crime, by the law of God, which hath not so made men that they should so abuse one another.
For even that very intercourse which should be between God and us is violated, when that same nature, of which He is the author, is polluted by the perversity of lust.'
“Vices against nature are also against God, and are so much more grievous than the depravity of sacrilege, as the order impressed on human nature is prior to and more firm than any subsequently established order.
“The nature of the species is more intimately united to each individual, than any other individual is.
(End Part 1)
Dec 15, 2018 15:31:51 #
04/14/2014 ‘The Sin of Sodom Was Inhospitality’ - A Response to This Lie (Part 2)
Gary L. Morella
https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02jHomo&Clergy_Hospitality_Morella.html
Wherefore sins against the specific nature are more grievous.
“Wherefore among sins against nature, the most grievous is the sin of bestiality, because use of the due species is not observed.
After this comes the sin of Sodomy, because use of the right sex is not observed.
(ibid., II-II, q. 154, a. 12).
Thus spoke S. Thomas Aquinas.
A distortion of St. Thomas
The statements attributed to Aquinas in support of homosexuality show a complete distortion of his writings on nature and sexuality as the.
Summa Theologica
(I-II, q. 31, a. 7),
And the Summa contra Gentiles
(book 3, chap. 136)
State exactly the opposite.
Nowhere in the former does Aquinas approve homosexuality as natural for particular individuals in the context of "I'm OK, you're OK," as the entire point of this treatise is to underscore the evil of man taking pleasure in acts due to the "corruption of nature from evil temperament"
By means of cannibalism or "the unnatural intercourse of man and beast, or other such things, which are not in accord with human nature" as examples.
The latter gives the "plumbing argument" against homosexuality as Aquinas states, "Carnal union is the end of certain bodily organs."
Aquinas here is specifically addressing carnal acts which are natural for human beings only within the confines of marriage, saying such acts are perfectly acceptable.
An exaggeration of the rights of homosexuals
The following is an example of the obfuscation of Catholic teaching on homosexuality that I have continually observed in both the secular and dissident Catholic media.
When Cardinal Ratzinger's pastoral is referenced, it is always taken out of context in that the only paragraph quoted is that saying discrimination (meaning invidious discrimination) against homosexuals cannot be tolerated.
This gives the distinct impression that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had absolutely nothing to say about the inclination to homosexual behavior being objectively disordered, that the living out of this inclination to homosexual behavior is not an acceptable option, and that the behavior itself is ordered to an intrinsic moral evil.
These truths are conspicuously absent.
Nowhere is there any admonition to the faithful that sin can be justly discriminated against!
The Church talks about "objective disorders" for very good reason for that is exactly what we're dealing with here.
Most certainly the Church welcomes the sinner, but the Church hates the sin. You do not say to an alcoholic, we love you, and we also love your alcoholism that is killing you.
Moreover, you would not encourage this individual that is OK to be inclined to such a disorder leading only to misery.
You would do everything in your power to get him to see that the direction in which he is heading leads to nowhere.
And yet, this is exactly what we are being told in regard to homosexuality by totally ignoring the fact that the inclination to this lifestyle is objectively disordered.
There is no "nice" way to couch this phrase anymore then there is a substitute for partial birth infanticide, which some call "a form of late term abortion," or "dilation and extraction."
Catholics are entitled to authentic catechesis.
There are enough lies to go around in the secular world without adding to the problem.
And that is what is happening in many dioceses in the world.
Catholics are adding to the problem instead of witnessing to the Faith.
The bottom line regarding what has been happening in regard to the homosexual question, not just locally, but internationally, is that there is no conceivable right to behavior that is intrinsically ordered to a moral evil.
The important point that is continually being missed but that must be underscored in bold print and shouted from the rooftops is that not only is the behavior intrinsically ordered to a moral evil, i.e.,
The behavior is a grave sin, and the inclination to the behavior is an objective disorder because it can never lead to a morally licit act.
As such, the inclination to the behavior remains an occasion of sin that must be overcome, avoided at all costs;
Otherwise it becomes fertile ground for sins.
This is confirmed in.
Matthew 5:27-30:
"You have heard it 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.
And if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your member than that your whole body be thrown into Hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into Hell.”
Our Lord is not talking literally about bodily dismemberment here, but rather about spiritual avoidance of occasions of sin.
His language is strong to show the severity of avoiding the occasions of sin to keep from damnation.
That is undeniable in this passage of Matthew.
Anyone making a blanket statement to the effect that thoughts are never sins is not speaking the truth.
Thoughts most certainly are an occasion of sin because they can be categorized as good or bad.
Thoughts that are temptations in and of themselves are certainly not sins if the temptation is resisted.
However, any book on Catholic Moral Theology,
if it is true to the teachings of the Church, will state that thoughts leading to willful desires of sinful acts are sins regardless of whether the act is physically committed or not.
This is what one finds, for example, about the sins of lust in Prummers’ Moral Theology – specifically the treatises on thoughts and the vices contrary to temperance and chastity.
The key here is the will.
We have free will to be with God or against Him.
This is what Our Lord is referring to in the aforementioned text in Matthew.
Accordingly, when the present day pastoral care for homosexual does not state publicly the correct doctrine, but says that there are healthy aspects of homosexuality, as was done by a former priest from the Penn State Catholic Community, it is stating a heresy!
It encourages an inclination (to a lifestyle) that is an occasion of serious sin. As Catholics, we were taught to avoid such occasions at all costs.
We need to be taught that again, especially by our Bishops.
We answer ultimately to God, Who is Perfect Truth that must be proclaimed uncompromisingly.
That and only that demonstrates genuine compassion for sinners.
To forgive them, certainly we must do, but also to remind them that any Act of Contrition, if it is meaningful, states that I firmly resolve with the help of Thy Grace to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life, Amen!
The last is an absolute requirement, to make the effort to amend our lives in answer to the forgotten admonishment of Jesus to the Magdalens of the world after they are forgiven, that they should "go and sin no more."
A tolerance that opens the door to sexual perversions
What we have to understand is that the door is opened to the acceptance of sexual perversion as a civil right by agreeing that there is nothing wrong with being inclined to these acts.
When you divorce the act itself from the inclination, you conveniently say that being inclined to aberrant behavior is all right, and we must leave all of those with these inclinations alone since that would be an offense to their dignity.
Do we apply the same illogic to those inclined to alcoholism, kleptomania, sadism, masochism, pedophilia, et al.? Sanity says otherwise, but of course we no longer live in a sane world, given Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, and the American Psychiatric Association telling us that homosexuality, sadism, masochism, and pedophilia are no longer disorders. This is what was actually stated in a tortured version of the APA's Diagnostic and Statistic's Manual.
This is the modus operandi of the militant homosexual movement: If it is given an inch, it will take a mile toward not only the promotion of homosexuality as a civil right, but also the making it a hate crime for anyone to say otherwise, in particular, that the inclination is objectively disordered.
When you ignore this fact, you're adding more fuel to a fire that is getting increasingly out of control.
Tolerance has led to the unimaginable abomination of so-called homosexual marriages
(End Part 2)
Gary L. Morella
https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02jHomo&Clergy_Hospitality_Morella.html
Wherefore sins against the specific nature are more grievous.
“Wherefore among sins against nature, the most grievous is the sin of bestiality, because use of the due species is not observed.
After this comes the sin of Sodomy, because use of the right sex is not observed.
(ibid., II-II, q. 154, a. 12).
Thus spoke S. Thomas Aquinas.
A distortion of St. Thomas
The statements attributed to Aquinas in support of homosexuality show a complete distortion of his writings on nature and sexuality as the.
Summa Theologica
(I-II, q. 31, a. 7),
And the Summa contra Gentiles
(book 3, chap. 136)
State exactly the opposite.
Nowhere in the former does Aquinas approve homosexuality as natural for particular individuals in the context of "I'm OK, you're OK," as the entire point of this treatise is to underscore the evil of man taking pleasure in acts due to the "corruption of nature from evil temperament"
By means of cannibalism or "the unnatural intercourse of man and beast, or other such things, which are not in accord with human nature" as examples.
The latter gives the "plumbing argument" against homosexuality as Aquinas states, "Carnal union is the end of certain bodily organs."
Aquinas here is specifically addressing carnal acts which are natural for human beings only within the confines of marriage, saying such acts are perfectly acceptable.
An exaggeration of the rights of homosexuals
The following is an example of the obfuscation of Catholic teaching on homosexuality that I have continually observed in both the secular and dissident Catholic media.
When Cardinal Ratzinger's pastoral is referenced, it is always taken out of context in that the only paragraph quoted is that saying discrimination (meaning invidious discrimination) against homosexuals cannot be tolerated.
This gives the distinct impression that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had absolutely nothing to say about the inclination to homosexual behavior being objectively disordered, that the living out of this inclination to homosexual behavior is not an acceptable option, and that the behavior itself is ordered to an intrinsic moral evil.
These truths are conspicuously absent.
Nowhere is there any admonition to the faithful that sin can be justly discriminated against!
The Church talks about "objective disorders" for very good reason for that is exactly what we're dealing with here.
Most certainly the Church welcomes the sinner, but the Church hates the sin. You do not say to an alcoholic, we love you, and we also love your alcoholism that is killing you.
Moreover, you would not encourage this individual that is OK to be inclined to such a disorder leading only to misery.
You would do everything in your power to get him to see that the direction in which he is heading leads to nowhere.
And yet, this is exactly what we are being told in regard to homosexuality by totally ignoring the fact that the inclination to this lifestyle is objectively disordered.
There is no "nice" way to couch this phrase anymore then there is a substitute for partial birth infanticide, which some call "a form of late term abortion," or "dilation and extraction."
Catholics are entitled to authentic catechesis.
There are enough lies to go around in the secular world without adding to the problem.
And that is what is happening in many dioceses in the world.
Catholics are adding to the problem instead of witnessing to the Faith.
The bottom line regarding what has been happening in regard to the homosexual question, not just locally, but internationally, is that there is no conceivable right to behavior that is intrinsically ordered to a moral evil.
The important point that is continually being missed but that must be underscored in bold print and shouted from the rooftops is that not only is the behavior intrinsically ordered to a moral evil, i.e.,
The behavior is a grave sin, and the inclination to the behavior is an objective disorder because it can never lead to a morally licit act.
As such, the inclination to the behavior remains an occasion of sin that must be overcome, avoided at all costs;
Otherwise it becomes fertile ground for sins.
This is confirmed in.
Matthew 5:27-30:
"You have heard it 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.
And if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your member than that your whole body be thrown into Hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into Hell.”
Our Lord is not talking literally about bodily dismemberment here, but rather about spiritual avoidance of occasions of sin.
His language is strong to show the severity of avoiding the occasions of sin to keep from damnation.
That is undeniable in this passage of Matthew.
Anyone making a blanket statement to the effect that thoughts are never sins is not speaking the truth.
Thoughts most certainly are an occasion of sin because they can be categorized as good or bad.
Thoughts that are temptations in and of themselves are certainly not sins if the temptation is resisted.
However, any book on Catholic Moral Theology,
if it is true to the teachings of the Church, will state that thoughts leading to willful desires of sinful acts are sins regardless of whether the act is physically committed or not.
This is what one finds, for example, about the sins of lust in Prummers’ Moral Theology – specifically the treatises on thoughts and the vices contrary to temperance and chastity.
The key here is the will.
We have free will to be with God or against Him.
This is what Our Lord is referring to in the aforementioned text in Matthew.
Accordingly, when the present day pastoral care for homosexual does not state publicly the correct doctrine, but says that there are healthy aspects of homosexuality, as was done by a former priest from the Penn State Catholic Community, it is stating a heresy!
It encourages an inclination (to a lifestyle) that is an occasion of serious sin. As Catholics, we were taught to avoid such occasions at all costs.
We need to be taught that again, especially by our Bishops.
We answer ultimately to God, Who is Perfect Truth that must be proclaimed uncompromisingly.
That and only that demonstrates genuine compassion for sinners.
To forgive them, certainly we must do, but also to remind them that any Act of Contrition, if it is meaningful, states that I firmly resolve with the help of Thy Grace to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life, Amen!
The last is an absolute requirement, to make the effort to amend our lives in answer to the forgotten admonishment of Jesus to the Magdalens of the world after they are forgiven, that they should "go and sin no more."
A tolerance that opens the door to sexual perversions
What we have to understand is that the door is opened to the acceptance of sexual perversion as a civil right by agreeing that there is nothing wrong with being inclined to these acts.
When you divorce the act itself from the inclination, you conveniently say that being inclined to aberrant behavior is all right, and we must leave all of those with these inclinations alone since that would be an offense to their dignity.
Do we apply the same illogic to those inclined to alcoholism, kleptomania, sadism, masochism, pedophilia, et al.? Sanity says otherwise, but of course we no longer live in a sane world, given Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, and the American Psychiatric Association telling us that homosexuality, sadism, masochism, and pedophilia are no longer disorders. This is what was actually stated in a tortured version of the APA's Diagnostic and Statistic's Manual.
This is the modus operandi of the militant homosexual movement: If it is given an inch, it will take a mile toward not only the promotion of homosexuality as a civil right, but also the making it a hate crime for anyone to say otherwise, in particular, that the inclination is objectively disordered.
When you ignore this fact, you're adding more fuel to a fire that is getting increasingly out of control.
Tolerance has led to the unimaginable abomination of so-called homosexual marriages
(End Part 2)
Dec 15, 2018 15:34:43 #
04/14/2014 ‘The Sin of Sodom Was Inhospitality’ - A Response to This Lie (Part 3)
Gary L. Morella
https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02jHomo&Clergy_Hospitality_Morella.html
A distortion of St. Thomas
The statements attributed to Aquinas in support of homosexuality show a complete distortion of his writings on nature and sexuality as the.
Summa Theologica
(I-II, q. 31, a. 7),
And the Summa contra Gentiles
(book 3, chap. 136)
State exactly the opposite.
Nowhere in the former does Aquinas approve homosexuality as natural for particular individuals in the context of "I'm OK, you're OK," as the entire point of this treatise is to underscore the evil of man taking pleasure in acts due to the "corruption of nature from evil temperament"
By means of cannibalism or "the unnatural intercourse of man and beast, or other such things, which are not in accord with human nature" as examples.
The latter gives the "plumbing argument" against homosexuality as Aquinas states, "Carnal union is the end of certain bodily organs."
Aquinas here is specifically addressing carnal acts which are natural for human beings only within the confines of marriage, saying such acts are perfectly acceptable.
An exaggeration of the rights of homosexuals
The following is an example of the obfuscation of Catholic teaching on homosexuality that I have continually observed in both the secular and dissident Catholic media.
When Cardinal Ratzinger's pastoral is referenced, it is always taken out of context in that the only paragraph quoted is that saying discrimination (meaning invidious discrimination) against homosexuals cannot be tolerated.
This gives the distinct impression that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had absolutely nothing to say about the inclination to homosexual behavior being objectively disordered, that the living out of this inclination to homosexual behavior is not an acceptable option, and that the behavior itself is ordered to an intrinsic moral evil.
These truths are conspicuously absent.
Nowhere is there any admonition to the faithful that sin can be justly discriminated against!
The Church talks about "objective disorders" for very good reason for that is exactly what we're dealing with here.
Most certainly the Church welcomes the sinner, but the Church hates the sin. You do not say to an alcoholic, we love you, and we also love your alcoholism that is killing you.
Moreover, you would not encourage this individual that is OK to be inclined to such a disorder leading only to misery.
You would do everything in your power to get him to see that the direction in which he is heading leads to nowhere.
And yet, this is exactly what we are being told in regard to homosexuality by totally ignoring the fact that the inclination to this lifestyle is objectively disordered.
There is no "nice" way to couch this phrase anymore then there is a substitute for partial birth infanticide, which some call "a form of late term abortion," or "dilation and extraction."
Catholics are entitled to authentic catechesis.
There are enough lies to go around in the secular world without adding to the problem.
And that is what is happening in many dioceses in the world.
Catholics are adding to the problem instead of witnessing to the Faith.
The bottom line regarding what has been happening in regard to the homosexual question, not just locally, but internationally, is that there is no conceivable right to behavior that is intrinsically ordered to a moral evil.
The important point that is continually being missed but that must be underscored in bold print and shouted from the rooftops is that not only is the behavior intrinsically ordered to a moral evil, i.e.,
The behavior is a grave sin, and the inclination to the behavior is an objective disorder because it can never lead to a morally licit act.
As such, the inclination to the behavior remains an occasion of sin that must be overcome, avoided at all costs;
Otherwise it becomes fertile ground for sins.
This is confirmed in.
Matthew 5:27-30:
"You have heard it 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.
And if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your member than that your whole body be thrown into Hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into Hell.”
Our Lord is not talking literally about bodily dismemberment here, but rather about spiritual avoidance of occasions of sin.
His language is strong to show the severity of avoiding the occasions of sin to keep from damnation.
That is undeniable in this passage of Matthew.
Anyone making a blanket statement to the effect that thoughts are never sins is not speaking the truth.
Thoughts most certainly are an occasion of sin because they can be categorized as good or bad.
Thoughts that are temptations in and of themselves are certainly not sins if the temptation is resisted.
However, any book on Catholic Moral Theology,
if it is true to the teachings of the Church, will state that thoughts leading to willful desires of sinful acts are sins regardless of whether the act is physically committed or not.
This is what one finds, for example, about the sins of lust in Prummers’ Moral Theology – specifically the treatises on thoughts and the vices contrary to temperance and chastity.
The key here is the will.
We have free will to be with God or against Him.
This is what Our Lord is referring to in the aforementioned text in Matthew.
Accordingly, when the present day pastoral care for homosexual does not state publicly the correct doctrine, but says that there are healthy aspects of homosexuality, as was done by a former priest from the Penn State Catholic Community, it is stating a heresy!
It encourages an inclination (to a lifestyle) that is an occasion of serious sin. As Catholics, we were taught to avoid such occasions at all costs.
We need to be taught that again, especially by our Bishops.
We answer ultimately to God, Who is Perfect Truth that must be proclaimed uncompromisingly.
That and only that demonstrates genuine compassion for sinners.
To forgive them, certainly we must do, but also to remind them that any Act of Contrition, if it is meaningful, states that I firmly resolve with the help of Thy Grace to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life, Amen!
The last is an absolute requirement, to make the effort to amend our lives in answer to the forgotten admonishment of Jesus to the Magdalens of the world after they are forgiven, that they should "go and sin no more."
A tolerance that opens the door to sexual perversions
What we have to understand is that the door is opened to the acceptance of sexual perversion as a civil right by agreeing that there is nothing wrong with being inclined to these acts.
When you divorce the act itself from the inclination, you conveniently say that being inclined to aberrant behavior is all right, and we must leave all of those with these inclinations alone since that would be an offense to their dignity.
Do we apply the same illogic to those inclined to alcoholism, kleptomania, sadism, masochism, pedophilia, et al.? Sanity says otherwise, but of course we no longer live in a sane world, given Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, and the American Psychiatric Association telling us that homosexuality, sadism, masochism, and pedophilia are no longer disorders. This is what was actually stated in a tortured version of the APA's Diagnostic and Statistic's Manual.
This is the modus operandi of the militant homosexual movement: If it is given an inch, it will take a mile toward not only the promotion of homosexuality as a civil right, but also the making it a hate crime for anyone to say otherwise, in particular, that the inclination is objectively disordered.
When you ignore this fact, you're adding more fuel to a fire that is getting increasingly out of control.
Tolerance has led to the unimaginable abomination of so-called homosexual marriages
(End Part 3)
Gary L. Morella
https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02jHomo&Clergy_Hospitality_Morella.html
A distortion of St. Thomas
The statements attributed to Aquinas in support of homosexuality show a complete distortion of his writings on nature and sexuality as the.
Summa Theologica
(I-II, q. 31, a. 7),
And the Summa contra Gentiles
(book 3, chap. 136)
State exactly the opposite.
Nowhere in the former does Aquinas approve homosexuality as natural for particular individuals in the context of "I'm OK, you're OK," as the entire point of this treatise is to underscore the evil of man taking pleasure in acts due to the "corruption of nature from evil temperament"
By means of cannibalism or "the unnatural intercourse of man and beast, or other such things, which are not in accord with human nature" as examples.
The latter gives the "plumbing argument" against homosexuality as Aquinas states, "Carnal union is the end of certain bodily organs."
Aquinas here is specifically addressing carnal acts which are natural for human beings only within the confines of marriage, saying such acts are perfectly acceptable.
An exaggeration of the rights of homosexuals
The following is an example of the obfuscation of Catholic teaching on homosexuality that I have continually observed in both the secular and dissident Catholic media.
When Cardinal Ratzinger's pastoral is referenced, it is always taken out of context in that the only paragraph quoted is that saying discrimination (meaning invidious discrimination) against homosexuals cannot be tolerated.
This gives the distinct impression that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had absolutely nothing to say about the inclination to homosexual behavior being objectively disordered, that the living out of this inclination to homosexual behavior is not an acceptable option, and that the behavior itself is ordered to an intrinsic moral evil.
These truths are conspicuously absent.
Nowhere is there any admonition to the faithful that sin can be justly discriminated against!
The Church talks about "objective disorders" for very good reason for that is exactly what we're dealing with here.
Most certainly the Church welcomes the sinner, but the Church hates the sin. You do not say to an alcoholic, we love you, and we also love your alcoholism that is killing you.
Moreover, you would not encourage this individual that is OK to be inclined to such a disorder leading only to misery.
You would do everything in your power to get him to see that the direction in which he is heading leads to nowhere.
And yet, this is exactly what we are being told in regard to homosexuality by totally ignoring the fact that the inclination to this lifestyle is objectively disordered.
There is no "nice" way to couch this phrase anymore then there is a substitute for partial birth infanticide, which some call "a form of late term abortion," or "dilation and extraction."
Catholics are entitled to authentic catechesis.
There are enough lies to go around in the secular world without adding to the problem.
And that is what is happening in many dioceses in the world.
Catholics are adding to the problem instead of witnessing to the Faith.
The bottom line regarding what has been happening in regard to the homosexual question, not just locally, but internationally, is that there is no conceivable right to behavior that is intrinsically ordered to a moral evil.
The important point that is continually being missed but that must be underscored in bold print and shouted from the rooftops is that not only is the behavior intrinsically ordered to a moral evil, i.e.,
The behavior is a grave sin, and the inclination to the behavior is an objective disorder because it can never lead to a morally licit act.
As such, the inclination to the behavior remains an occasion of sin that must be overcome, avoided at all costs;
Otherwise it becomes fertile ground for sins.
This is confirmed in.
Matthew 5:27-30:
"You have heard it 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.
And if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your member than that your whole body be thrown into Hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away;
It is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into Hell.”
Our Lord is not talking literally about bodily dismemberment here, but rather about spiritual avoidance of occasions of sin.
His language is strong to show the severity of avoiding the occasions of sin to keep from damnation.
That is undeniable in this passage of Matthew.
Anyone making a blanket statement to the effect that thoughts are never sins is not speaking the truth.
Thoughts most certainly are an occasion of sin because they can be categorized as good or bad.
Thoughts that are temptations in and of themselves are certainly not sins if the temptation is resisted.
However, any book on Catholic Moral Theology,
if it is true to the teachings of the Church, will state that thoughts leading to willful desires of sinful acts are sins regardless of whether the act is physically committed or not.
This is what one finds, for example, about the sins of lust in Prummers’ Moral Theology – specifically the treatises on thoughts and the vices contrary to temperance and chastity.
The key here is the will.
We have free will to be with God or against Him.
This is what Our Lord is referring to in the aforementioned text in Matthew.
Accordingly, when the present day pastoral care for homosexual does not state publicly the correct doctrine, but says that there are healthy aspects of homosexuality, as was done by a former priest from the Penn State Catholic Community, it is stating a heresy!
It encourages an inclination (to a lifestyle) that is an occasion of serious sin. As Catholics, we were taught to avoid such occasions at all costs.
We need to be taught that again, especially by our Bishops.
We answer ultimately to God, Who is Perfect Truth that must be proclaimed uncompromisingly.
That and only that demonstrates genuine compassion for sinners.
To forgive them, certainly we must do, but also to remind them that any Act of Contrition, if it is meaningful, states that I firmly resolve with the help of Thy Grace to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life, Amen!
The last is an absolute requirement, to make the effort to amend our lives in answer to the forgotten admonishment of Jesus to the Magdalens of the world after they are forgiven, that they should "go and sin no more."
A tolerance that opens the door to sexual perversions
What we have to understand is that the door is opened to the acceptance of sexual perversion as a civil right by agreeing that there is nothing wrong with being inclined to these acts.
When you divorce the act itself from the inclination, you conveniently say that being inclined to aberrant behavior is all right, and we must leave all of those with these inclinations alone since that would be an offense to their dignity.
Do we apply the same illogic to those inclined to alcoholism, kleptomania, sadism, masochism, pedophilia, et al.? Sanity says otherwise, but of course we no longer live in a sane world, given Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, and the American Psychiatric Association telling us that homosexuality, sadism, masochism, and pedophilia are no longer disorders. This is what was actually stated in a tortured version of the APA's Diagnostic and Statistic's Manual.
This is the modus operandi of the militant homosexual movement: If it is given an inch, it will take a mile toward not only the promotion of homosexuality as a civil right, but also the making it a hate crime for anyone to say otherwise, in particular, that the inclination is objectively disordered.
When you ignore this fact, you're adding more fuel to a fire that is getting increasingly out of control.
Tolerance has led to the unimaginable abomination of so-called homosexual marriages
(End Part 3)
Dec 17, 2018 08:00:26 #
Exposing SATANIC PURGATORY!!!!!
http://www.exposingsatanism.org/purgatory/
The satanic Roman Catholic church, perverts the Gospel of Salvation. Has murdered over a HUNDRED MILLION people for being non-Catholic, lies making Mary sinless and equal to Jesus, they have black masses and sacrifices in the Vatican, claim the pope is god on earth, believe doctrine from the popes throughout history are equal to the word of God, worship pagan gods, worship and pray to dead saints, have forged thousands of documents to prove their false history, use throughout their churches pagan and satanic symbols.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/01/25/multiple-catholic-priests-expose-the-practice-of-satanism-within-the-vatican/
http://philadelphiafreepress.com/the-black-mass-within-vatican-walls-p2368-1.htm
http://rekindlingthereformation.com/2017/08/01/the-bloody-history-of-papal-rome-a-timeline/
Here is what the Bible (infallible word of God) says the only path, narrow to eternal salvation is.
God provided salvation, how we can receive salvation, and what are the results of salvation.
The first verse on the Romans Road to salvation is Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." We have all sinned. We have all done things that are displeasing to God. There is no one who is innocent. Romans 3:10-18 gives a detailed picture of what sin looks like in our lives. The second Scripture on the Romans Road to salvation, Romans 6:23, teaches us about the consequences of sin - "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." The punishment that we have earned for our sins is death. Not just physical death, but eternal death!
The third verse on the Romans Road to salvation picks up where Romans 6:23 left off, "but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:8 declares, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Jesus Christ died for us! Jesus' death paid for the price of our sins. Jesus' resurrection proves that God accepted Jesus' death as the payment for our sins.
The fourth stop on the Romans Road to salvation is Romans 10:9, "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Because of Jesus' death on our behalf, all we have to do is believe in Him, trusting His death as the payment for our sins - and we will be saved! Romans 10:13 says it again, "for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins and rescue us from eternal death. Salvation, the forgiveness of sins, is available to anyone who will trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
The final aspect of the Romans Road to salvation is the results of salvation. Romans 5:1 has this wonderful message, "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Through Jesus Christ we can have a relationship of peace with God. Romans 8:1 teaches us, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Because of Jesus' death on our behalf, we will never be condemned for our sins. Finally, we have this precious promise of God from Romans 8:38-39, "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Would you like to follow the Romans Road to salvation? If so, here is a simple prayer you can pray to God. Saying this prayer is a way to declare to God that you are relying on Jesus Christ for your salvation. The words themselves will not save you. Only faith in Jesus Christ can provide salvation! "God, I know that I have sinned against you and am deserving of punishment. But Jesus Christ took the punishment that I deserve so that through faith in Him I could be forgiven. With your help, I place my trust in You for salvation. Thank You for Your wonderful grace and forgiveness - the gift of eternal life! Amen!"
http://www.exposingsatanism.org/purgatory/
The satanic Roman Catholic church, perverts the Gospel of Salvation. Has murdered over a HUNDRED MILLION people for being non-Catholic, lies making Mary sinless and equal to Jesus, they have black masses and sacrifices in the Vatican, claim the pope is god on earth, believe doctrine from the popes throughout history are equal to the word of God, worship pagan gods, worship and pray to dead saints, have forged thousands of documents to prove their false history, use throughout their churches pagan and satanic symbols.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/01/25/multiple-catholic-priests-expose-the-practice-of-satanism-within-the-vatican/
http://philadelphiafreepress.com/the-black-mass-within-vatican-walls-p2368-1.htm
http://rekindlingthereformation.com/2017/08/01/the-bloody-history-of-papal-rome-a-timeline/
Here is what the Bible (infallible word of God) says the only path, narrow to eternal salvation is.
God provided salvation, how we can receive salvation, and what are the results of salvation.
The first verse on the Romans Road to salvation is Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." We have all sinned. We have all done things that are displeasing to God. There is no one who is innocent. Romans 3:10-18 gives a detailed picture of what sin looks like in our lives. The second Scripture on the Romans Road to salvation, Romans 6:23, teaches us about the consequences of sin - "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." The punishment that we have earned for our sins is death. Not just physical death, but eternal death!
The third verse on the Romans Road to salvation picks up where Romans 6:23 left off, "but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:8 declares, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Jesus Christ died for us! Jesus' death paid for the price of our sins. Jesus' resurrection proves that God accepted Jesus' death as the payment for our sins.
The fourth stop on the Romans Road to salvation is Romans 10:9, "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Because of Jesus' death on our behalf, all we have to do is believe in Him, trusting His death as the payment for our sins - and we will be saved! Romans 10:13 says it again, "for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins and rescue us from eternal death. Salvation, the forgiveness of sins, is available to anyone who will trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
The final aspect of the Romans Road to salvation is the results of salvation. Romans 5:1 has this wonderful message, "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Through Jesus Christ we can have a relationship of peace with God. Romans 8:1 teaches us, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Because of Jesus' death on our behalf, we will never be condemned for our sins. Finally, we have this precious promise of God from Romans 8:38-39, "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Would you like to follow the Romans Road to salvation? If so, here is a simple prayer you can pray to God. Saying this prayer is a way to declare to God that you are relying on Jesus Christ for your salvation. The words themselves will not save you. Only faith in Jesus Christ can provide salvation! "God, I know that I have sinned against you and am deserving of punishment. But Jesus Christ took the punishment that I deserve so that through faith in Him I could be forgiven. With your help, I place my trust in You for salvation. Thank You for Your wonderful grace and forgiveness - the gift of eternal life! Amen!"
Dec 17, 2018 19:06:18 #
Guess you did't read the article and have a fundamentalist ax to grind.
Your boring jack and childish
Go back to your troll hole . . .
Your boring jack and childish
Go back to your troll hole . . .
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