"Getting" Pope Francis, or Not | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Monsignor Pope does not understand that the moral law is to be soothing to human suffering (a sinful lifestyle, like promiscuity or addiction, is rarely a happy one). If moral laws are promulgated that increase suffering, like calling homosexuality disordered in order to find a justification not to accept gay marriage, then this teaching does not come from God. Ethics, by the way, is an essential element of religion - the scriptures are full of it, from Leviticus, to Sirach to the Pauline letters. What we must not, do, however, is to deify such teachings - which are all based on the natural law teaching of the time.
It is time to democratize natural law teaching. The curial monopoly on it amounts to Relativism because it tries to Catholicize reason - even when what the Church teaches is against reason and evidence (such as the beleif that life begins or must be protected at conception - when gastrulation is the better choice). While you and Gomez may disagree with adding materialistic evidence to the discussion, if calling evidence you simply can't accept materialism is the gist of the argument then your argument is lost. Morality is all about what is best for Man, not some theological abstraction of what God demands - since God has no interest in human morality (or salvation for that matter) except for love for man in a way that makes us happy - even in this world.
In the old theological debates heretics were condemned, executed and attacked by mobs. While the CDF (aka the Inquisition) still can condemn what it can't accept - which may lead to loss of ministry and pay, at least they no longer have the power to execute anyone (and not for lack of trying by the Church to keep the Papal States alive).
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