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The Real Truth About Homosexuality. This is a presentation of the Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, specifically on Homosexuality, Marriage, and the Family. Given by Fr. Michael Rodriguez.More
The Real Truth About Homosexuality.

This is a presentation of the Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, specifically on Homosexuality, Marriage, and the Family. Given by Fr. Michael Rodriguez.
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Saint John Chrysostom denounces homosexual acts as being contrary to nature. Commenting on the Epistle to the Romans (1: 26-27), he says that the pleasures of sodomy are an unpardonable offense to nature and are doubly destructive, since they threaten the species by deviating the sexual organs away from their primary procreative end and they sow disharmony between men and women, who no longer are …More
Saint John Chrysostom denounces homosexual acts as being contrary to nature. Commenting on the Epistle to the Romans (1: 26-27), he says that the pleasures of sodomy are an unpardonable offense to nature and are doubly destructive, since they threaten the species by deviating the sexual organs away from their primary procreative end and they sow disharmony between men and women, who no longer are inclined by physical desire to live together in peace.
The brilliant Patriarch of Constantinople employs most severe words for the vice we are analyzing. Saint John Chrysostom makes this strong argument: “All passions are dishonorable, for the soul is even more prejudiced and degraded by sin than is the body by disease; but the worst of all passions is lust between men…. The sins against nature are more difficult and less rewarding, since true pleasure is only the one according to nature. But when God abandons a man, everything is turned upside down! Therefore, not only are their passions [of the homosexuals] satanic, but their lives are diabolic….. So I say to you that these are even worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body….. There is nothing, absolutely nothing more mad or damaging than this perversity.” (St. John Chrysostom, In Epistulam ad Romanos IV, in J. McNeill, op. cit., pp. 89-90)

Saint Gregory the Great delves deeper into the symbolism of the fire and brimstone that God used to punish the sodomites: “Brimstone calls to mind the foul odors of the flesh, as Sacred Scripture itself confirms when it speaks of the rain of fire and brimstone poured by the Lord upon Sodom. He had decided to punish in it the crimes of the flesh, and the very type of punishment emphasized the shame of that crime, since brimstone exhales stench and fire burns. It was, therefore, just that the sodomites, burning with perverse desires that originated from the foul odor of flesh, should perish at the same time by fire and brimstone so that through this just chastisement they might realize the evil perpetrated under the impulse of a perverse desire.” (St. Gregory the Great, Commento morale a Giobbe, XIV, 23, vol. II, p. 371, Ibid., p. 7)
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HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOPE:
Statement Of The Catholic Medical Association
www.narth.com/docs/hope.html
Sex and the Catholic View with Monica Breaux Our contemporary culture is inundated with sexual messages, sexual images, sexual behavior, and sexual license. But did you know that current scientific research validates the wisdom of Church teaching on human sexuality in reference to physical and …More
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HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOPE:

Statement Of The Catholic Medical Association

www.narth.com/docs/hope.html

Sex and the Catholic View with Monica Breaux Our contemporary culture is inundated with sexual messages, sexual images, sexual behavior, and sexual license. But did you know that current scientific research validates the wisdom of Church teaching on human sexuality in reference to physical and emotional health? What does the Church really teach about sex? How do we discern appropriate moral sexual attitudes and behavior? To what extent have we become captives to the safe sex delusion? What is pornography's real effect on those who use it? And how is the cultural acceptance of the gay identity detrimental to all involved?

The Safe-Sex Delusion, Pt 1
with Monica Breaux

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The human person is magnificently created by God. And when he acts in accordance with the way he has been created, he experiences happiness, fulfillment, a sense of well-being, and joy. But, when he acts against his nature, he becomes enslaved to his passions, chained to his appetites, a prisoner of his own devise. No where is this more clearly seen than in the way man appropriates the gift of his sexuality. What are the consequences of recreational sex? How does it effect the human person in his body, his mind, his soul? What is its effect on true intimacy and love?
The Safe-Sex Delusion, Pt 2
with Monica Breaux

Catholic teaching on the human person presents us with the beautiful reality of the gift that is ours through our sexuality. This teaching stands in stark contrast to the cultural message on sex - a seductive message of sexual license that has lured many into its snare, with devastating consequences. How does an individual make his way through the landmine of sexual temptation rampant in our culture today?
A Catholic Response to the Gay Identity
with Monica Breaux

Increasingly, we are receiving calls on our live radio program from parents, siblings or friends who have a loved one involved in the gay lifestyle. Their questions are inevitably the same. What can we do, they ask. Can we invite our loved one and his or her partner to our upcoming family event? What do we do if they want to share a room? Our loved one is going to marry his same sex partner. Can I attend the wedding? Today, our guest is going to share with us Church teaching and the pastoral direction given to us so we can fulfill our moral duty in responding to people who identify themselves as gay.
Solutions to Reestablishing a Catholic Sexual Ethic
with Monica Breaux

Our contemporary culture has fallen very far from a godly perspective of the sexuality and the gift that it is meant to be. But, as we have seen, current scientific research is proving the wisdom of Church teaching regarding morality and sexual behavior. How can we restore or re-establish the Catholic sexual ethic in our society today

The Catholic Sexual Ethos and the Sexualization of the Culture
with Monica Breaux
Today's sexualized culture is the full bloom of the sexual revolution of the 1960's. What was then a part of the radical fringe has now been normalized through cultural acceptance and legislative action. But the costs have been high and the devastation has been deep. And many are experiencing the consequences. Catholic teaching holds the answer. What does it say? And what challenges does the Catholic social worker face in trying to implement this teaching in the social agencies?

Prayer To Obtain Grace To Conquer Our Passions
St. Johns Manual, 1856

Holy God, Father of mercies, who hast created me only to serve thee in the liberty of thy children, permit not that I should longer be subject to the degrading slavery of my passions, and assist me in the struggles, without which I can never hope to escape from their oppressive bondage. O Lord, thou knowest my weakness, and the strength of the enemies who have dominion over me; thou art the continual witness of my faults and miseries; I am puffed up with pride; my feelings are embittered by resentment and ill-humor; I am indolent in the discharge of duty, and the few good works I perform are corrupt by self-love, which insinuates itself into my best actions. O my God, how wretched a slavery for a soul, which, notwithstanding these and innumerable other miseries, desires to belong unreservedly to Thee alone! My resolution is taken; whatever it may cost me, I am determined to listen no more to the dangerous suggestions of my evil inclinations, but to avoid sin and conquer the passions which unhappily lead to it. In thy name, O Almighty God, I will take up arms against the enemies, which so many others have happily combated with the assistance of Thy grace. In Thy name, also, I hope to gain the victory, through the merits of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who with Thee and the Holy Ghost, livest and reignest one God, world without end. Amen.