Sentences with phrase «objective disorder»

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.»

CNN: My Take: Why good Catholics are challenging church line on homosexuality Patrick Hornbeck of Fordham University looks into why more Catholics are defying the Vatican on homosexuality, while the Roman Catholic Church has called being gay or lesbian «an objective disorder.»

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.»

«Cardinal Ratzinger's 1986 letter to the Bishops of the Church, On the Pastoral Care of Hom os3 xual Persons, states that «although the particular inclination of the hom os3 xual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.»»

Two years ago at the annual Erasmus Lecture in New York, Dignity, the Catholic homosexual rights group, disrupted the meeting in an attempt to silence Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who had earlier dared to assert that homosexuality is «an objective disorder» that Christians should face with courage.

The truth is that we are dealing with an objective disorder within the person.

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».