Social And Sexual Teachings: Polarization Between Catholics And Radical Catholics

What do you know about the Catholic Church’s teachings about homosexuality? Now, is that The topic of homosexuality and what the Church teaches about it has been a very controversial issue. There are many misconceptions about this topic that has begun to spread throughout our society, as more individuals have gathered the courage to come out as homosexual. The Church, nor science, knows why homosexuals are inclined to like who they like. Whether it be a genetic gene or an experience the child had, homosexuals should be treated with respect. As previously said, they are humans. They are people just like you and me. While some people might not agree with their “behavior.” This disputed issue has sparked the interest in many to actually find out

The scope of which one defines social justice must be widened in order for the church to effectively address. For the purpose of this paper social justice or a lack there of will be associated with any situation one finds their self in where love is not visible. It is evident in the world today that there is an utter lack of love, this is demonstrated through the burgeoning number of neglected and abandoned children, divorces, physical and sexual assaults, rapes, murders, suicides, victims of racism and sexism, and people suffering in poverty. It is indisputable that what the world needs most right now is a true understanding and application of love through the perspective of Christ, rather than the secular and shallow understanding that we have come to accept. The purpose of this paper is to prove that Jesus has given us clear guidance on how to love God, our self and others through His walk on this earth; submitting to His guidance in exuding true love is crucial in transforming our lives and the world as a whole, this is the true encapsulation of social

The Roman Catholic Church was an extremely powerful organization during the middle ages and for the most part controlled all aspects of people’s lives. However, this organization does not last forever and over time begins to crack and crumble until a series of schisms split the church into multiple opposing sides. The Church’s message and authority was eventually undermined by corruption and the lay people demanding reform.

Topic 1: Pro-Catholic Church The Catholic health care ministry’s mission is to promote and defend human dignity by not discriminating against people based on social standing, monetary status, or health condition. The Catholic Church is not permitted to withhold their services from people who do not come from wholly favorable conditions or those who do not have insurance or who are under uninsured, children and the unborn; single parents; the elderly; those with incurable diseases and chemical dependencies; racial minorities; immigrants and refugees, persons with mental or physical disabilities. Every single person “regardless of the cause or severity must be treated as a unique person of incomparable worth, with the same right to life and to adequate health care as all other persons.”

It's mainly based around human dignity, with a holistic approach to development, which comes back to the main principles of catholic social teaching.

My next offensive argument is that the Catholic Church creates a space of hypocrisy by publicizing one theme of morality but practicing whatever they like through alteration or blatant ignoring of religious tradition within the clerical order with the intent on making money instead of upholding doctrine. This hypocrisy extends to religious vows that were blatantly ignored by the clergy in the past, and do so now with more secrecy. It is Cannon Law that “competent authority of the Church” must take vows of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, obedience, and charity (Catholic Canonists). Meanwhile, in the past as seen by the previously mentioned criticisms of Pope Alexander VI’s use of great wealth to help seize the papacy and the modern “Bishop of Bling” shows that both the vows of poverty and obedience to those vows are explicitly ignored by those who are supposed to enforce them. As far as chastity goes, Pope Alexander IV had four, possibly more, very public children with a mistress that he was able to legitimize and use for his own political ventures, as well as two other mistresses he had while serving as pope, blatantly ignoring the vow of chastity (Murphy). In more recent days the Catholic Church sex scandal of pedophilic priests and Cardinals shows not only an air of disobedience and sexual immorality, but that the insubordination of the clergy hasn’t stopped since the more “primitive” days but has

There has been a new renewal in the Catholic Church since Argentina’s Bishop, Father Francis, became the new Pope. This renewal appears evident when listening to the Pope’s speech on homosexuality. Many of the world’s approximately one billion Catholics were shocked that he is taking a liberal stance in the Church and opening the Catholic community to these supposed sinners. However, it is important to consider why people still view Pope Francis as an open-minded Pope, especially since he has shown similar stances as his predecessors. This reaction to the Pope and interpretation of his stance as not fully opposing homosexuality is mostly due to the press defining Pope Francis as the “good” Pope and his predecessor as the “bad” one.

As the weed of secularization continues to spread its roots through the belly of western civilization, its critical that Christians properly discern its damaging effects on our society’s sexual moral compass. As a culture, it seems what is acceptable changes every few months with little reasoning or clear logic. Confused, disoriented, and unable to draw a straight line between wrong and right, our culture’s moral compass is spinning. We are drifting off to sea in a ship commanded by drunk captain, name Moral Relativism.

Christianity has strict regulations when it comes to sex. According to the bible sex is an act of procreating between a married man and women. The definition does not stray from that and it is not flexible. Any other type of sex is deemed a sin. Sexuality can be related to gender or how someone identifies themself, for example homosexual or heterosexual. Sex is more than just an act, it can be ones desire, behavior, or identity. It also provides a system of power, rules for living, and regulates our behavior. Recently there have been attempts to broaden Christianity to accept homosexuals but the movement is still slow. Monsignor Krysztof Olaf Charamsa announced that he was a homosexual to the Vatican, and lost his position. This shows how even religious figures can be gay and Christianity is not broadening its beliefs to include homosexuals, it is merely rejecting them.

“I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.” ― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

The article From Passive Subordination to Complementary Partnership: The Papal Conception of a Woman’s Place in Church and Society, by Richard L. Camp, explains the development and conceptions of the Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) to the conceptions of women of Pope John Paul II (1978-2005). This article is relevant to my historical investigation because it addresses the development if the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church from “passive subordination” (*cite), or openly dependent to men, to a “complementary partnership” where women and men work together to complete and enhance the performance of the church. It was published in 1990 by Camp, a professor at California State University, Northridge. Camp’s article exists to describe the conception

In “Amoris Laetitia” (”The Joy of Love”), an apostolic exhortation that does not change Roman Catholic doctrine, Pope Francis urged priests and bishops to treat homosexuals, single parents, and divorcées with understanding and respect and to avoid “reductive” approaches based on simple moral rules, which had led to many such Catholics feeling excluded or condemned. While suggesting that remarried divorcées (whose marriages had not been annulled) could be permitted to receive communion through guidance from a priest, Francis did not lift their formal exclusion from the sacrament. Francis also reaffirmed the church’s traditional rejection of contraception and same-sex unions. Two years in the making, “Amoris Laetitia” drew upon heated debates

Historically, as a result of our fathers not wanting to be regarded as sanctioning behaviours at odd with the church’s theology, the church has always taken a conservative stance on sexual ethics. That said, ministers, till this very day, still link the transmissions of AIDS with homosexuality, a schismatic theological issue for all denominations, since it is much easier to deny the problem of diseased bodies and avoid talk of sex and sexually transmitted diseases. This will not be that kind of sermon.

As a member of the Catholic Church, one is called upon to liberate the marginalized and help the weakest members of society. In order to so in a way that is in accordance with the Catholic Church, one is obligated to follow the ten principles of Catholic Social Teachings. These teachings are a guideline that will lead citizens to the way God planned for society to function through the words of the Bible, Popes and Bishops. As society turns to the social issues the world experiences today, the Catholic principles shed light on the acts necessary to carry out God’s plan. A social issue that has been ignored in the past is child labour. This horrendous practice has taken over the lives of over 152 million children, due to money thirsty savages that have no regard for basic human rights. (MORE THAN 40 MILLION, 2017). The Catholic Church is highly opposed to the social justice issue of child labour as she clearly outlines in her teachings that society must protect those who are vulnerable, respect the dignity and human rights of minors, and allow children to live their youth in freedom and free from oppression.

In the1930’s, Ireland was known as one of the most sexually repressed countries in the world. ‘Ireland was a Catholic country, with over 90% of the population declaring themselves to be practising Catholics. The church was a potent social and political force.’ It dominated peoples lives and provided the ideological basis for this sexual repression. The ideology of the church was one of submission and dedication and was based on the Ten Commandments. The power of the church and their