Comments on: Homosexuals not so ‘gay’ in California http://catholicism.org/homosexuals-not-so-gay-in-california.html An online journal edited by the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Richmond N.H. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://catholicism.org/homosexuals-not-so-gay-in-california.html#comment-486 Michael Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:25 +0000 http://catholicism.org/?p=5318#comment-486 Brother Andre Marie: Your response to Mary Ann is the best I have ever heard on this matter. You are the only person I know of besides me who has put in writing that homosexual acts are mortal sins. I think that communicating that is of the utmost importance. I cannot tell you how many Catholics cannot comprehend this, and many are actually shocked when I use the terms "homosexual act" and "mortal sin" in the same sentence. Again, thank you for this post. I hope many will read it. Brother Andre Marie: Your response to Mary Ann is the best I have ever heard on this matter. You are the only person I know of besides me who has put in writing that homosexual acts are mortal sins. I think that communicating that is of the utmost importance. I cannot tell you how many Catholics cannot comprehend this, and many are actually shocked when I use the terms “homosexual act” and “mortal sin” in the same sentence. Again, thank you for this post. I hope many will read it.

]]> By: Brother AndrĂ© Marie http://catholicism.org/homosexuals-not-so-gay-in-california.html#comment-480 Brother AndrĂ© Marie Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:52:24 +0000 http://catholicism.org/?p=5318#comment-480 Mary Ann: On this issue, I would say my Christian compassion and love consists in two things. First, in telling the truth. "Charity rejoices with the truth" says Saint Paul. Homosexuality is a grave moral problem and its acts are objectively mortally sinful. Holy Scripture could not be more clear, and the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church only affirms it. Second, my compassion and love consist in telling the person who sins that, with the grace of God, he can change, finding his true happiness in Christian faith, hope, and charity -- which will ultimately bring him to heaven if he perseveres to the end. I am sorry about your father and your upbringing in an apparently dysfunctional family. The fact that some "traditional marriages" (i.e., REAL marriages, or those between a man and a woman) are not happy, does not rule out the fact that marriage is defined as the union of one man with one woman. The abuse of a thing does not rule out its proper use (abusus non tollet usus). Police brutality does not argue against the institution of law enforcement. Governmental corruption does not justify anarchy. So, too, bad marriages do not rule out marriage, which was instituted by God as the union of one man with one woman. Mary Ann: On this issue, I would say my Christian compassion and love consists in two things. First, in telling the truth. “Charity rejoices with the truth” says Saint Paul. Homosexuality is a grave moral problem and its acts are objectively mortally sinful. Holy Scripture could not be more clear, and the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church only affirms it. Second, my compassion and love consist in telling the person who sins that, with the grace of God, he can change, finding his true happiness in Christian faith, hope, and charity — which will ultimately bring him to heaven if he perseveres to the end.

I am sorry about your father and your upbringing in an apparently dysfunctional family. The fact that some “traditional marriages” (i.e., REAL marriages, or those between a man and a woman) are not happy, does not rule out the fact that marriage is defined as the union of one man with one woman. The abuse of a thing does not rule out its proper use (abusus non tollet usus). Police brutality does not argue against the institution of law enforcement. Governmental corruption does not justify anarchy. So, too, bad marriages do not rule out marriage, which was instituted by God as the union of one man with one woman.

]]> By: Mary Ann http://catholicism.org/homosexuals-not-so-gay-in-california.html#comment-479 Mary Ann Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:12:35 +0000 http://catholicism.org/?p=5318#comment-479 So, tell me Brother Andre where is yore christian compassion and love who really are the sore losers? As for myself I have been living in anythig but sin for 28 years and that is a lot more then I can say for more my father who was in a traditional marriage with my mother and found it neccessary to scare the heck out of me constantly with his vulgar tirades and turn my beautiful mother into an emotional wreck a shell along with the rest of us. So, tell me Brother Andre where is yore christian compassion and love who really are the sore losers? As for myself I have been living in anythig but sin for 28 years and that is a lot more then I can say for more my father who was in a traditional marriage with my mother and found it neccessary to scare the heck out of me constantly with his vulgar tirades and turn my beautiful mother into an emotional wreck a shell along with the rest of us.

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