Being Celibate, Christian and Gay…
Some bits of an online discussion…
Catholicism, (homo)eros, and everthing else
Some bits of an online discussion…
“Because the Church tells me to” is a pretty unsatisfactory answer…
This was during the angry hedonistic phase of my life, when I had given up on God’s plan for me but not yet on His existence.
I’ve come to have a lot more to say about homosexuality than a simple condemnation of “sodomy,” and so has the Church.
“… and old principles reappear under new forms. It [a great idea] changes with them in order to remain the same. In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” So goes the argument of Blessed John Henry Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. Like any great idea, doctrine must change in order to remain the same. Only dead doctrine cannot change, for “a power of development is a proof of life.”