Sentences with phrase «objective moral evil»

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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.»

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.»

Many in our age who discover the inadequacy of the simple moral opposition between good and evil tend to reduce evil to illusion or objective error, or to absolutize it as something radical, pure, and unredeemable.

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».