Posted on 10/07/2014 8:51:07 PM PDT by Morgana
Bishop Domenico Sigalini of Palestrina, Italy, presented a clear explanation of the Church's teaching on conjugal love, the expression of sexuality as instituted by God, and marriage in an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews from the Vatican this week.
"As regards the mentality of the Church which comes from the teachings of Holy Scriptures and all the teachings of the magisterium of the Church, we say that sexuality in man is an important aspect. But the objective of sexuality is to continue life," said Sigalini, president of Italy’s Episcopal Commission of Laity in Italy.
The bishop said that while couples can decide how many children they will have, they have to be careful not to use sexuality as an end in itself.
"All the acts between husband and wife should be open to life," he stated.
"As regards homosexuality," Bishop Sigalini noted that, even leaving biblical imperatives aside, natural anthropology shows that "men and women are constituted differently and in their union of love with sexual gestures are oriented towards children."
"Masculine sexuality is made to encounter feminine sexuality to give origin to life," he said, "but if sexuality is used in a non-natural way, as happens between two men or two women, then we have to say it is not in keeping with the teaching of God and with human nature."
Bishop Sigalini compared the indissolubility of sacramental marriage between a man and a woman to the "concrete image of the love of God for humanity" which, he said, "cannot be an image that ends, that is made of infidelity, made of ruptures."
"We have to educate ourselves towards this," he urged. "We can be understanding of failures, but we do not reduce reality based on the failures of our humanity. The truth is larger than us and is always a destination. So no one permits themselves to condemn, but we help each other to be faithful to this project."
Touching on the widespread condemnation by secular society of those who espouse Christian moral principles on marriage and sexuality, Bishop Sigalini said that "to be a believer … demands the courage to go against the current."
"The Gospel is not a spontaneous way to live that allows anyone to make any decisions we wish," he said. "It is an order of love that is very serious and very precise. Therefore opposition makes us reflect more on the search for true motivations but does not make us desist from understanding that there is a truth there that makes us happy and saves us.”
"There is a great objective before us that is the love of God that gives us the strength to go forward," the bishop concluded. "If there are mistakes you repent, confess, and you go back. No one is amazed that errors happen, but what counts is that we have followed the truth that Jesus told us."
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**”All the acts between husband and wife should be open to life,” he stated.**
Amen!!
What if one or the other is infertile? How about if she is already pregnant?
I understand his point but the idea that sex is ONLY about procreation is at least as wrong as the idea that it should be separate from procreation.
Sex is also about the communion between husband and wife.
**What if one or the other is infertile?**
Sometimes after an adoption the couple CAN conceive.
**How about if she is already pregnant?**
Common sense here.
Because every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted
God gets quite irate
Let the heathen spill theirs
On the dusty ground
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can’t be found
Every sperm is wanted
Every sperm is good
Every sperm is needed
In your neighborhood
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon
Spill theirs just anywhere
But God loves those who treat their
Semen with more care
:What if one or the other is infertile? How about if she is already pregnant?:
It appears the admonition is for the point of copulation to be “open to life”. So even if someone is infertile, they could be open to life. In the instance of pregnancy, they would not be open to life, but in either instance it does not negate the intent.
“open to life” refers to the couples attitude and acceptance of creating life during the sexual act.
It is the deliberate act of preventing the creation of life that the church stands against.
It does not mean that “If there is no possibility of life being created, there should be no sex.”
Those are completely different concepts and modes of thinking, and that should be easy to decipher from the phrase “open to life”.
“Sometimes after an adoption the couple CAN conceive.”
That happens all the time.
Are you going to argue that married couples should abstain from sex unless the woman is fertile?
Also, if a purpose of sex isn’t for pleasure and physical/emotional bonding, what is the purpose of a woman’s clitoris?
No it doesn’t. You just hear about it when it does. In fact, it rarely happens.
"With God, all things are possible..." The medical diagnosis might be incorrect. Even doctors are human. The point is that the act should be open to (i.e. not seek to thwart from the git-go) the creation of Life.
How about if she is already pregnant?
The point is that the act should be open and welcoming to (i.e. not seek to thwart from the git-go) the creation of Life.
Regards,
A lot of FReepers think like DUmmies on some of these issues.
Yeah. That is weird.
**Are you going to argue that married couples should abstain from sex unless the woman is fertile?**
No
The principle of the fertile octogenarian.
Trust and estates...oye.
Good article that points to the modern, perverted interpretation of love.
Seriously?
Humans are lazy, but were given the motivation to perpetuate the species not unlike other animals.
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