There are facts and truths that "sexual libertarians" don't want society or public opinion to know, that even they don't want to know. To sum up those facts - accumulated in different human cultures and societies - we don't need sex to live a full life and be content. To define one's identity on the basis of our sexuality alone is to reduce our human value and dignity. I am a lot more than just my genitalia, and so are you. G.S.
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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best human efforts to make sense of our lives - and of our human sexuality in particular - also including the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium. The Church has been accumulating much valuable wisdom granted her by Almighty God since her foundation at Pentecost. In this way, wherever there is darkness in our human understanding, it will serve to highlight the bright and radiant truth, which is Jesus Christ: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also." John's Gospel 14:6-7
Father Gilles Surprenant, priest & poustinik
In each case, please go to the link for the complete article.
Catholic Social Thought and the Common Good
By Fred Kammer, S.J.
Critical to Catholic thinking is the fundamental concept of the common good. The Catechism, (Catechism of the Catholic Church - 1992) following Pope John XXIII in Mater et Magistra and Vatican II, defines the common good as: “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.”1 The common good applies to each human community, but its most complete realization occurs in the political community where the state’s role is “to defend and promote the common good of civil society, its citizens, and intermediate bodies.”2
Three Essential Elements - The Catechism notes three essential elements of the common good:
(1) respect for the individual,
(2) the social well-being and development of the group, and
(3) peace which results from the stability of a just society.
The common good’s conceptual roots lie in Greek and Roman philosophy as the goal of political life, the good of the city (pólis), and the task entrusted to civic leaders.3
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Statement on the Status of Marriage in Canada - June 18, 2003
Marriage: Is It God VS Society? - A pastor's letter - Aug 9, 2003
Who Can Define the Human Person, Marriage, Society? - Aug 15, 2003
SUR LA FAMILLE ET LES DROITS DES ENFANTS - France - 4 octobre 1958
RAPPORT - TOME 1 - - - RAPPORT - TOME 2
Equality Between Adults & Children: Meaning, Implications, Opposition - 2013
Mariage: Droits des Adultes ou Droits des Enfants? - 7 mars, 2006
Marriage: Adult Rights or Children's Rights? - March 7, 2006
Homosexual Parenting: Is It Time For Change? - May 17, 2004
Fatima visionary predicted 'final battle' = over marriage, family - Dec 31, 2016
Marriage is holy: Swiss bishop - 9 points on 'Amoris laetitia' - Feb 3, 2017
Why Catholic teaching on marriage matters for society - March 2, 2017
Family & Marriage: Historical Revisionism?
Let’s Not Go Back to 1934 Europe.
CONTEXT: April 5, 2004 a Montreal Jewish school library was firebombed and destroyed.
Goon squads harassed and then persecuted Jewish people. They also did away with the handicapped and any others felt to be undesirable. People thought this would keep the trouble away from them and save them from taking responsibility. Is our society returning to that inhumanity? What could possibly allow anyone to think it's OK to firebomb a school? Do kids or people who are different no longer have any value?
Over the past 50 years, our culture has stripped any inherent value from human life by flushing it away within hours or days of conception with the pill. For times when that doesn't work, we've legitimized abortion. The premise at work is that life has no value if I don't want it to. That's a cultural shift, but the result is a society that no longer recognizes the value of a human life.
The only value that remains is value we arbitrarily choose to assign. Nothing and no one has value on their own. That's why we can claim marriage no longer belongs to a man and woman who bond for life for the sake of children they will conceive, bear, and raise for society. This new cultural revisionism insists it can make something mean anything we want it to mean, because it means nothing on its own, and whatever it meant in the past is irrelevant.
What are we left with? There remain only brute force, verbal bullying, terrorism, and oh yes, individuals and groups willing to put themselves on the line for truth and the common good. It's time for good people to speak up. Witnesses reported Jesus died for the truth. Many more have done so. At this holy time of Passover, we applaud and support our Jewish brothers and sisters who courageously defend their lives and the truth. We are all better for it, but let us not allow them to stand alone.
Gilles A. Surprenant, pastor, Pierrefonds 9.04.2004
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