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Catholic theology of sexuality, like Catholic theology in general, is drawn from "natural law", [1] canonical scripture, divine revelation, and sacred tradition, as interpreted authoritatively by the magisterium of the Catholic Church. Sexual morality evaluates sexual behavior according to standards laid out by Catholic moral theology, and ...
Persona Humana is a document published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1975. It is a declaration on certain questions concerning sexual ethics.. Persona Humana regards human sexuality as a central element of the person because it gives the person's life the principal traits that distinguish it.
Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast ...
Throughout Church history, various Catholic thinkers have offered differing opinions on sexual pleasure. Some saw it as sinful, while others disagreed. [ 72 ] There was no formal Church position in the matter until the 1546 Council of Trent decided that " concupiscence " invited sin but was "not formally sinful in itself". [ 72 ]
Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics is a book by Christine E. Gudorf. It was published in 1994 by The Pilgrim Press. In the book, Gudorf argues that sexual activity not for the purpose of procreation, such as same-sex relations, masturbation, and sex with contraceptives, is permissible in Christianity.
[9] [10] According to the Catholic theology of sexuality, all sexual acts must be open to procreation by nature and express the symbolism of male-female complementarity. [11] [12] Sexual acts between two members of the same sex cannot meet these standards. [13] Homosexuality thus constitutes a tendency towards this sin.
The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants.
The document has attracted criticism based on an interpretation that the document implies that homosexuality is associated with pedophilia and the abuse of children. [3]It has also been asserted that, although the preparation for this document had started ten years before its publication, [1] this instruction is seen as an official answer by the Catholic Church to clerical sexual abuse cases ...