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Spanish Cardinal-elect: ‘not an insult’ to call homosexuality a psychological disorder
Life Site News ^ | Hilary White

Posted on 01/21/2014 3:49:27 PM PST by Morgana

ROME, January 21, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The secular media is abuzz with comments from Archbishop Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, recently named as a cardinal-elect by Pope Francis, that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be treated.

Sebastián told the Spanish newspaper Diario Sur on Monday that: “Homosexuality is a defective manner of expressing sexuality, because [sex] has a structure and a purpose, which is procreation.”

“A homosexual who can’t achieve procreation is failing,” he said. “Our bodies have many defects. I have high blood pressure, a defect I have to try and correct in whatever way I can.”

“To say that homosexuality is a defect is not an insult,” he added. “It helps because in many cases of homosexuality it is possible to recover and become normal with the right treatment.”

Unsurprisingly, the comments have aroused the ire of both the homosexualist lobby and their supporters in politics and the mainstream secular media. The Spanish homosexualist lobby group Colegas accused Sebastián of “homophobia” saying that homosexuality is not a “curable illness”.

Maria Gamez, spokesman for the left-wing PSOE party said, “These are not the winds of change that appear to be blowing from the Vatican. Pope Francis seemed to have distanced himself from these retrograde, insulting and anti constitutional theses.

“He should be asking himself whether a cardinal like this is helping the regeneration he defends.”

But for a Catholic churchman to assert that homosexuality is a disorder is unsurprising, since this is precisely the assessment of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official compendium of Catholic moral doctrine. CCC paragraph 2357 says that the “psychological genesis” of homosexuality, “remains largely unexplained”. Nevertheless, it continues, “homosexual acts” are “acts of grave depravity”.

“Tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.”

The Catholic Catechism also says that all people are called to practice the virtue of chastity, as it is applicable to their particular state in life. “Chastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy.”

Archbishop Sebastián, at 84, is the oldest of the men listed for this year’s consistory that raises prelates to the highest office in the Catholic Church, under the pope himself, and confers the status of “prince of the Church” and advisor to the pope. The cardinal-elect resigned as bishop of Pamplona, Spain in 2007 and now lives in Malaga in Costa del Sol. He has served as a professor of theology since the 1960s, and was rector of the Pontifical University of Salamanca in 1971.

The UK’s Daily Mail commented that his remarks were “in direct contrast to Pope Francis’s recent assertion that the Catholic church should not marginalise gay people.” Pope Francis was named Person of the Year 2013 by the American homosexualist magazine The Advocate after he said to a group of reporters on the plane home from World Youth Day last year, “If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?” But Sebastián contested this widely disseminated interpretation, saying that Pope Francis’ message had been manipulated by the secular media.

“The pope is very respectful and holds all people in high esteem but doesn’t betray or change the traditional teaching of the church,” said the archbishop. “It’s one thing to be compassionate towards a homosexual person and another thing to morally justify the practice of homosexuality.”

“All he is doing is offering comprehension and compassion and showing a desire to welcome those who have gone astray,” he said.

In the same interview on Sunday, Sebastián said he was concerned that abortion had become “normal” in Spanish society. He said the issue was not really a religious one, but merely “humanist” and came down to whether a woman should have the right to end “a life inside her”.

In 2005, Pope Benedict issued an instruction prohibiting those with homosexual inclinations to be accepted into seminaries. This instruction was preceded by a letter to bishops around the world, ordering that priests with homosexual tendencies be immediately removed from any educational functions at seminaries.

In 2008, Benedict issued another instruction clarifying that homosexuality itself is a serious psycho-social disorder that affects a man’s whole being to such a degree that it would disqualify him for ordination.


TOPICS: Catholic; General Discusssion; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: archbishopsebastian; cardinal; catholic; europeanunion; homosexualagenda; mariagamez; popefrancis; romancatholicism; spain

1 posted on 01/21/2014 3:49:27 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

One does not have to be an Alter Boy to see the logic in this. Given the Church’s first hand experience with GAYs in the ranks, to be construed as Anti-Gay in this context is proper. If the Gay lobby objects to this Anti-Gay contextual understanding in the midst of the Church, then they have no Soul to begin with; yet another sign of psychological disorder.


2 posted on 01/21/2014 4:21:57 PM PST by Jumper
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To: Morgana

Archbishop Fernando Sebastián Aguilar BUMP!!

Remember when homosexuals were considered mentally ill? They still are. They’ve just been mainstreamed by a bunch of liberal doctors.

Interesting article about this in the latest Reader’s Digest. Mentally ill folks being mainstreamed.


3 posted on 01/21/2014 4:29:40 PM PST by upchuck (Stop this abuse now! Get behind Convention of States: http://bit.ly/1ak1Iz9)
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To: Jumper

>> [?] to be construed as Anti-Gay

Sebastián’s assertion?


4 posted on 01/21/2014 4:39:25 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Morgana
Spanish Cardinal-elect: ‘not an insult’ to call homosexuality a psychological disorder.

Of course it's not!
It is merely a statement of fact.

Of course, the Pink Mafia (and its clueless supporters) work very hand at maintaining their fantasy world.

5 posted on 01/21/2014 4:49:52 PM PST by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: Morgana

Your gay and you meet God...on the question of being Gay ....do ask God for..1. His Forgiveness or. 2. His Healing or 3. His Blessing


6 posted on 01/21/2014 6:03:04 PM PST by tophat9000 (Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
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To: tophat9000

4. all of the above


7 posted on 01/21/2014 6:07:51 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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