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The Church especially loves you, Daniel, because Christ died for you and because of that, you are worthy of love. Christ came to call, not the righteous, but sinners (Matthew 9:13). The Church does call you to chastity, as she does everyone, which, for those who are not attracted to women, means sexual continence. This is not an easy call, but I promise it bears spiritual fruit abundantly.
The Catechism teaches:
Chastity and homosexuality
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2358 The number of men and women
who have deep-seated homosexual
tendencies is not negligible.
This inclination, which is objectively
disordered, constitutes for most
of them a trial. They must be
accepted with respect, compassion,
and sensitivity. Every sign of
unjust discrimination in their
regard should be avoided. These
persons are called to fulfill
God's will in their lives and,
if they are Christians, to unite
to the sacrifice of the Lord's
Cross the difficulties they may
encounter from their condition.
The Church makes a distinction between persons with same-sex attraction, and homosexual acts. She loves tenderly those who experience same-sex attraction. She teaches that committing homosexual acts (oral sex, anal sex, mutual masturbation, any physical sexual expression) does grave spiritual harm to us (She says the same about these acts between members of the opposite sex, too). We believe God designed human sexuality to be fruitful. We believe any act which, of its nature, is not life-giving, does grave spiritual harm as it misuses God's gifts and puts the focus on the individual's gratification rather than life-giving self-sacrificial love.
There is an organization called Courage (www.couragerc.net) that helps Catholics with same-sex attraction live faithfully and chastely their baptismal vocation.
Eric
Mike replied:
Dear Daniel,
My Gen Z God child asked a similar question that I wanted to share with you.
Hi Steve,
Uncle Michael here!
If I remember correctly you asked:
In Matthew 19:12, is being born as a eunuch a support for homosexuality?
Did Jesus say anything about homosexuality in the Gospel?
Does the New Testament say anything about homosexuality?
Why does the Church hate gays?
I asked Magisterium.com these questions and got what is below.
Magisterium A.I. (Magisterium.com) is an excellent AI tools to get quick answers. Just go here: Magisterium.com and type in your question where it says:
ENTER YOUR PROMPT . . . . . .
The Magisterium A.I. answered you questions as follows:
From the Gospel we read:
5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
8:3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.”
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
9 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 immoral persons, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Jesus did not use the word “homosexuality” but neither did he use the word “incest” or “bestiality”. He did not need to. In using the Greek word porneia he identified with how the Jewish law delineated lawful and unlawful sex. According to Jesus, unlawful sex is sin.
Jesus' Teachings in the Gospels on Homosexuality.
Jesus did not explicitly mention homosexuality or homosexual acts in the Gospels. The Gospels record no direct statements from Him using terms equivalent to modern understandings of homosexuality. However, He affirmed the natural order of marriage as established in creation, quoting Genesis: a union between man and woman open to life (cf. Matthew 19:4-6;Mark 10:6-9). This foundational teaching on the complementarity of the sexes underpins the Church's understanding of human sexuality as ordered to heterosexual marriage.
New Testament Teachings on Homosexuality.
Yes, the New Testament explicitly addresses homosexual acts as gravely sinful, primarily in the letters of St. Paul. The Catechism of the Catholic Church bases its teaching on Sacred Scripture, citing:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations
between men or between women who
experience an exclusive or predominant
sexual attraction toward persons
of the same sex. It has taken
a great variety of forms through
the centuries and in different
cultures. Its psychological genesis
remains largely unexplained. Basing
itself on Sacred Scripture, which
presents homosexual acts as acts
of grave depravity, (cf. Genesis 19:1-29; Romans 1:24-27; 1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Timothy 1:10) tradition
has always declared that homosexual
acts are intrinsically disordered.(Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith, Persona humana 8) They are contrary to the natural
law. They close the sexual act
to the gift of life. They do not
proceed from a genuine affective
and sexual complementarity. Under
no circumstances can they be approved.
Key passages include:
Romans 1:26-27: Describes homosexual acts as resulting from idolatry, involving "degrading passions" where men and women exchange natural relations for unnatural ones.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10: Lists those who practice homosexuality (Greek arsenokoitai and malakoi, often translated as sodomites and homosexuals) among those who will not inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Timothy 1:10: Condemns "sodomites" (same Greek term) alongside other grave sins.
These texts align with the Church's view that such acts close the sexual act to the gift of life and lack genuine complementarity. Natural law interpretations emphasize that homosexual tendencies, while not sinful in themselves, represent an "objective disorder" because they incline toward acts contrary to the procreative-unitive ends of sexuality ordered to heterosexual marriage.
Does the Church "Hate Gays"?
The Church does not hate persons with homosexual attractions; this is a common misconception. Catholic teaching firmly distinguishes between the person (dignified, called to chastity, and worthy of respect) and the acts (intrinsically disordered and gravely sinful).
Respect and compassion: Persons experiencing homosexuality "must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided." (CCC 2358, echoed in tradition). The inclination itself is "not a sin," but an objective disorder ordered toward moral evil.
Chastity and homosexuality
.
.
2358 The number of men and women
who have deep-seated homosexual
tendencies is not negligible.
This inclination, which is objectively
disordered, constitutes for most
of them a trial. They must be
accepted with respect, compassion,
and sensitivity. Every sign of
unjust discrimination in their
regard should be avoided. These
persons are called to fulfill
God's will in their lives and,
if they are Christians, to unite
to the sacrifice of the Lord's
Cross the difficulties they may
encounter from their condition.
Call to chastity: All are called to chastity; for those with same-sex attraction, this means abstaining from acts, pursuing friendship, and union with Christ.
Paraphrasing:
Pastoral approach: Recent documents affirm unchanging doctrine on marriage while allowing non-liturgical blessings for individuals as an expression of pastoral closeness, without approving unions or changing moral teaching. These blessings target persons seeking God's help amid struggles, emphasizing mercy without endorsing irregular situations.
Natural law basis: Homosexual acts contradict the body's teleology for procreation and unity in marriage, harming human flourishing—like a dysfunction even if genetically influenced. Widespread acceptance exerts "bad influence" (malas persuasiones) on society, eroding family stability.
The Church's "no" to acts, stems from love for truth and the human good, not hatred.
It proclaims God's mercy: sinners are welcomed, urged to repentance, and offered healing through sacraments. As Pope Francis has said, the Church is not a "customs house" excluding anyone; closeness to Jesus comes first.
In summary, Jesus upheld creation's design for sexuality without naming homosexuality; the New Testament condemns acts as depraved; the Church loves persons with same-sex attraction, rejecting acts out of fidelity to natural law and Scripture, while extending pastoral care and blessings to individuals.
The Teaching of the Catholic Church on this matter is we always love the sinner/person but hate the sin. This is why Jesus died on the Cross for us. Because He loves us but hates the sin.
Just do the best you can and get to weekly or monthly Confession.
Some Catholics, like my god child, may have many gay friends who accept this way of life and just don't have the knowledge or ability to explain and/or defend Catholic teachings on this issue.
If your one, I would suggest two things:
Print this web posting and answer and share it with them, and
Ask in your prayers that the Lord Jesus send others in the Church to your gay friends who can explain to them the "common natural sense" behind the Catholic answer. They don't have to agree with it, unless they want to; your goal is to share the common sense and blessings that come with a Catholic Christian family life
I would also add these teachings from the Catechism:
407 The doctrine of original sin,
closely connected with that of
redemption by Christ, provides
lucid discernment of man's situation
and activity in the world. By
our first parents' sin, the devil
has acquired a certain domination
over man, even though man remains
free. Original sin entails "captivity
under the power of him who thenceforth
had the power of death, that is,
the devil". (Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511; cf. Hebrews 2:14) Ignorance of
the fact that man has a wounded
nature inclined to evil gives
rise to serious errors in the
areas of education, politics,
social action (cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter His Holiness Pope St. John Paul II Centesimus Annus 25) and morals.
408 The consequences of original
sin and of all men's personal
sins put the world as a whole
in the sinful condition aptly
described in St. John's expression, "the
sin of the world". (John 1:29) This expression
can also refer to the negative
influence exerted on people by
communal situations and social
structures that are the fruit
of men's sins. (cf. John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 16)
409 This dramatic situation of "the
whole world [which] is in the
power of the evil one" (1 John 5:19; cf. 1 Peter 5:8) makes
man's life a battle:
The whole of man's history has
been the story of dour combat
with the powers of evil, stretching,
so our Lord tells us, from the
very dawn of history until the
last day. Finding himself in the
midst of the battlefield man has
to struggle to do what is right,
and it is at great cost to himself,
and aided by God's grace, that
he succeeds in achieving his own
inner integrity.
Offenses against chastity.
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2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure.
"Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action." (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Persona humana 9)
"The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved." (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Persona humana 9)
To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
Catholic Church, Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd Ed. (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997), pp. 564–65
Mike
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