Church stands firm on moral issues
The letter also stated that conservative Catholics should re-examine their opinions regarding “the morality of abortion, divorce, contraception, homosexuality, etc”.
The Church has never changed its position on moral issues, especially those Mr McSweeney mentions.
Why? Because its moral teachings are immutable, based on a correct understanding of the human according to the unchanging natural moral law.
Homosexuality and contraception, for example, are contrary to the natural moral law because they close the act of sex to the gift of life. Hence, these practices can never be approved under any circumstances.
To suggest otherwise is not “realism”, but rather, in the words of Pope Benedict XVI, an “expression of anarchic freedom which falsely tries to pass itself off as the true liberation of man”.
In claiming that “the morals, mores and laws that were appropriate for the 19th century are no longer as appropriate today”, Mr McSweeney subscribes to what Pope Pius X has called ”modernism” - or the “summation of all heresies”.
If the Church’s teachings on human sexuality have had little relevance for Catholics, it is not because the Church is wrong but because many Catholics today are intent on satisfying their own egos and desires.
Paul Kokoski
234 Columbia Drive
Hamilton
Ontario
Canada
