Debate & discernment: scripture & the spirit. (Disputed Questions: Homosexuality) (Cover Story)

From: Commonweal | Date: January 28, 1994| Author: Johnson, Luke Timothy | Copyright information

Homosexuality as an issue internal to the life of the church poses a fundamental challenge not only to moral discernment and pastoral care (the two aspects touched on in the recent Catechism of the Catholic Church) but to the self-understanding of the Church as at once inclusive ("catholic") and separate ("holy"). The question is not only how we feel or think or act concerning homosexuality, but also how those feelings, thoughts, and actions relate to the canonical texts which we t...

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