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Culture Quotes from Catholic Social Teaching
“Man remains above all a being who seeks the truth and strives to live in that truth…From this…the culture of a nation derives its character.” (Pope St. John Paul II, 51)
What is ‘Ethical’ Porn?
“By its very nature, pornography denies the genuine meaning of human sexuality”. (Pope St. John Paul II, 2)
The answer is solidarity and subsidiarity, those two lynchpins of Catholic Social Thought.
We must be aware that “[a]s we proclaim the truth in love, it is not possible for us to avoid all criticism; nor is it possible to please everyone.”
Make no mistake, “[t]he Church’s doctrine regarding [homosexual behavior] is thus based…on the solid foundation of a constant Biblical testimony." (On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons)
"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, [Gen 19:1-29; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10] tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.'
Here are bible verses about homosexuality that are foundational to the Catholic Church's position on this issue.
