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Human Dignity and Homosexuality in Catholic Teaching: An Anthropological Disconnect between Truth and Love?
Abstract
Catholic teaching proposes a definition of sexual human dignity that finds truth and love in the essence of sexual acts between spouses in heterosexual marriage. For those acts to be moral between fertile couples, they must be potentially-reproductive acts, but that requirement does not grip for infertile couples. The Church proposes sexual norms and legislation based on that definition. We offer a definition of human sexuality that finds devotion and truth in all just and loving heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual potentially-reproductive and non-reproductive acts, and we propose norms and legislation based on that definition. Underlying these other proposals are different sexual anthropologies and definitions of human dignity. In this paper we first briefly explain and then critique Catholic teaching on gay orientation, moral norms governing homosexual relationships, and legislative norms derived from these teachings and defended by the Church.
1 Introduction
Catholic learning and Catholic ethicists espouse an objective m
‘Thrilled’ by pope’s stance on gays, LGBT groups now wait for action
Some Catholics pointed out that Pope Francis is a elongated way from endorsing queer marriage, but that his comments nevertheless signal a significant change in approach to the LGBT community.
Pope Francis listens to journalists’ questions as he flies back Rome following his visit to Brazil July 29, 2013.(Photo by Luca Zennaro/Reuters)
LGBT groups Monday saw the pope’s remarks on gay clergy as a significant shift from those held by his predecessors, and perhaps the inception of a sea alter in the Catholic Church.
The “who am I to judge” statement from Pope Francis regarding gay clergy was “an absolute thrill,” to hear, said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of Dignity USA, an corporation of gay and woman-loving woman Catholics.
“I give credit to Francis for dealing with it in the open,” Duddy-Burke said. “The proof that we’re all talking about it is an exciting thing.”
Activists will glance to Pope Francis to follow up his words with actions reaching out to the LGBT collective, Duddy-Burke said, but his comments marked a change in tone from the “hurtful rhetoric” of his predecessors.
While gay rights advocates
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On June 2, 2009 our 2008-09 Bannan Fellow, James B. Nickoloff, delivered a lecture on his research at Santa Clara University this academic year "Intrinsically Disordered”: Gay People and the Holiness of the Church. The text of the converse is included below. A PDF of the sms is available via the link below. To access the audio podcast of the talk, follow the instructions below.
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[I would like to express my thanks to the Bannan Institute for Jesuit Educational Mission, a department of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, and to the Religious Studies Department, both at Santa Clara University, for their generous support during the academic year 2008-09 when the following essay was written. The essay is devoted to Dr. Ana María Pineda, friend and colleague, with deep gratitude for her support in countless ways large and small. In the interest of “full disclosure,” let me make it clear that I write as
INTRODUCTION
1. In recent years, various questions relating to homosexuality contain been addressed with some frequency by Pope John Paul II and by the relevant Dicasteries of the Sacred See.(1) Homosexuality is a troubling moral and social phenomenon, even in those countries where it does not exhibit significant legal issues. It gives go up to greater worry in those countries that have granted or intend to grant – legal recognition to queer unions, which may include the possibility of adopting children. The present Considerations do not hold new doctrinal elements; they seek rather to reiterate the essential points on this question and provide arguments drawn from reason which could be used by Bishops in preparing more specific interventions, appropriate to the different situations throughout the nature, aimed at protecting and promoting the dignity of marriage, the foundation of the family, and the stability of society, of which this institution is a constitutive element. The present Considerations are also intended to give advice to Catholic politicians by indicating the approaches to proposed legislation in this area which would be consistent with Christian c
LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
ON THE PASTORAL CARE OF HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS
1. The issue of homosexuality and the moral evaluation of gay acts have increasingly become a matter of public debate, even in Catholic circles. Since this debate often advances arguments and makes assertions inconsistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church, it is quite rightly a result in for concern to all engaged in the pastoral ministry, and this Congregation has judged it to be of sufficiently grave and widespread importance to address to the Bishops of the Catholic Church this Letter on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.
2. Naturally, an exhaustive treatment of this complex issue cannot be attempted here, but we will emphasize our reflection within the distinctive context of the Catholic moral perspective. It is a perspective which finds back in the more secure findings of the natural sciences, which have their own legitimate and proper methodology and field of inquiry.
However, the Catholic moral viewpoint is founded on human reason illumined by faith and is consciously motivated by the desire to accomplish the will of God our Father. The Church is thus in a positi