......”Never have I heard the word “homosexual” or “gay” in any official catholic context until now. They never condemn it, they never discuss it in homilies, they don’t teach about it as a sin in catholic education, it’s like it simply doesn’t exist in official Catholicism.”.........
Where have you been?....here’s just a small portion regarding homosexuality....
Pope John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor of 1993, which “specifically proclaims the intrinsic evil of the homosexual condition” rejecting the view of some theologians who questioned the basis on which the church condemns as morally unacceptable “direct sterilization, autoeroticism, pre-marital sexual relations, homosexual relations and artificial insemination”.
In 1997, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued a letter to the world’s bishops giving guidelines for candidates for the seminary stipulating, “sufficient affective maturity and a clearly masculine sexual identity.” It reiterated the policy in 2002: “Ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood of homosexual men or men with homosexual tendencies is absolutely inadvisable and imprudent and, from the pastoral point of view, very risky. A homosexual person, or one with a homosexual tendency is not, therefore, fit to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders.”
In 1975, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the document Persona humana dealing with sexual ethics. It stated that acceptance of homosexual activity was against the church’s teaching and morality.
The Council of London in 1102, called at the urging of Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury, explicitly denounced homosexual behavior as a sin for the first time at an English council.
Canon 14 of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. .. stated that if a priest suspended for unchastity of any kind - especially the vice that “on account of which the anger of God came from heaven upon the children of unbelief” (that is sodomy) - dared to celebrate Mass then he was to be deposed permanently from the priesthood.
In short, in all the years I attended mass or attended Catholic school, if a homosexual was sitting next to me he never heard word one that he might have found judgmental of him. Not once.
Maybe the gays are really into reading the official Vatican letters, documents, and reports. Guess that would explain it.