Sentences with phrase «intrinsic moral evil»

In 1985, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, of which he was prefect, issued a letter to all bishops calling homosexuality «an intrinsic moral evil» and an «objective disorder».

Then came Humanae vitae, reasserting the intrinsic moral evil of contraceptive acts.

Official Catholic teachings describe gay or lesbian orientation as «an objective disorder» and tell those who love their same - sex partners that they possess a «tendency... toward an intrinsic moral evil.»

As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»