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1 1 | the moral evaluation of homosexual acts have increasingly become
2 1 | on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.~
3 3 | trying to understand the homosexual condition and noted that
4 3 | noted that culpability for homosexual acts should only be judged
5 3 | commonly drawn between the homosexual condition or tendency and
6 3 | tendency and individual homosexual actions. These were described
7 3 | interpretation was given to the homosexual condition itself, some going
8 3 | particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it
9 3 | out of this orientation in homosexual activity is a morally acceptable
10 5 | themselves on the moral issue of homosexual behaviour. The Church's
11 6 | judgement made there against homosexual relations. In Leviticus
12 6 | God those who behave in a homosexual fashion.~Against the background
13 6 | lists those who behave in a homosexual fashion among those who
14 6 | society of his day, Paul uses homosexual behaviour as an example
15 6 | of this disharmony than homosexual relations. Finally, 1 Tim.
16 6 | sinners those who engage in homosexual acts.~
17 7 | good. A person engaging in homosexual behaviour therefore acts
18 7 | Creator's sexual design. Homosexual activity is not a complementary
19 7 | This does not mean that homosexual persons are not often generous
20 7 | but when they engage in homosexual activity they confirm within
21 7 | in every moral disorder, homosexual activity prevents one's
22 8 | the Church to accept the homosexual condition as though it were
23 8 | disordered and to condone homosexual activity. Those within the
24 8 | ministers must ensure that homosexual persons in their care will
25 9 | impression that it represents all homosexual persons who are Catholics.
26 9 | the aegis of Catholicism homosexual persons who have no intention
27 9 | intention of abandoning their homosexual behaviour. One tactic used
28 9 | of or reservations about homosexual people, their activity and
29 9 | aware that the view that homosexual activity is equivalent to,
30 10| 10. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are
31 10| crimes committed against homosexual persons should not be to
32 10| not be to claim that the homosexual condition is not disordered.
33 10| a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently
34 11| has been argued that the homosexual orientation in certain cases
35 11| deliberate choice; and so the homosexual person would then have no
36 11| choice but to behave in a homosexual fashion. Lacking freedom,
37 11| person, even if engaged in homosexual activity, would not be culpable.~
38 11| the sexual behaviour of homosexual persons is always and totally
39 11| recognized as belonging to the homosexual person as well. As in every
40 11| evil, the abandonment of homosexual activity will require a
41 12| 12. What, then, are homosexual persons to do who seek to
42 12| conformity of the self-denial of homosexual men and women with the sacrifice
43 12| them.~Christians who are homosexual are called, as all of us
44 13| their pastoral care for homosexual persons is admirable, and,
45 13| Lord by encouraging the homosexual person to lead a chaste
46 15| teaching of the Church for homosexual persons of their dioceses.
47 15| include organizations in which homosexual persons associate with each
48 15| without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral. A truly
49 15| appreciate the need for homosexual persons to avoid the near
50 15| Church's position prevents homosexual men and women from receiving
51 15| pastoral programme will assist homosexual persons at all levels of
52 16| is the realization that a homosexual person, as every human being,
53 16| as a "heterosexual" or a "homosexual" and insists that every
54 17| forms of pastoral care for homosexual persons. These would include
55 17| may be of real service to homosexual persons, promoting their
56 17| assist those families of homosexual persons to deal with this
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