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Tradition

Persona Humane
In the pastoral field, these homosexuals must certainly be treated with understanding and sustained in the hope of overcoming their personal difficulties and their inability to fit into society. Their culpability will be judged with prudence. But no pastoral method can be employed which would give moral justification to these acts on the grounds that they would be consonant with the condition of such people. For according to the objective moral order, homosexual relations are acts which lack an essential and indispensable finality. In Sacred Scripture they are condemned as a serious depravity and even presented as the sad consequence of rejecting God. This judgment of Scripture does not of course permit us to conclude that all those who suffer from this anomaly are personally responsible for it, but it does attest to the fact that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and can in no case be approved of.

It is necessary to accept people in their concrete being, to know how to support their search, to encourage the wish for God and the will to feel fully part of the Church, also on the part of those who have experienced failure or find themselves in the most diverse situations. This requires that the doctrine of the faith, the basic content of which should be made increasingly better known, be proposed alongside with mercy.

Synod on the Family

"And we have a whole generation of people now—really two generations of people now—whose first sexual experiences, whose only experiences of community, have taken place on the internet, meaning they’re disembodied, and we haven’t taken into account what having all of a person’s sexual experiences be disembodied does to a person, when they’re first developing their concept of sexuality and identity. But we’re seeing it play out, because if you don’t form your sense of identity in community, then your identity, if you’re just talking about yourself as a black hole, you end up in nihilism, because by ourselves we aren’t human; we aren’t anything. Aristotle knew that! If you’re going to live by yourself, you have to be a beast or a god. And Nietzsche said ¿Porque no los dos? [Laughter] But you can’t be human by yourself.

So the solution to this is not to degrade people and insult people, insist on calling them things they don’t want to be called in public to make some kind of point. That’s not the solution. The solution is we have to work to rebuild communities so that people who have grown up without any concept of what it even is start to understand what community life is. And once you’re in a community, your identity gets formed, because you have a role within that community. You have gifts and abilities that you share with that community, and then in return the community places certain responsibilities upon you. And you—contributing what you can and fulfilling those responsibilities gives you a sense of self and a sense of self-worth and a sense of being appreciated, and that makes for a healthy person.

But we can’t argue at people out of this while they’re sitting alone in their room in front of a computer. No matter what you post on Twitter, you’re not going to convince anybody of anything, and you’re not going to help them. I know most of the people doing these things don’t care about helping them, because they’ve identified these people as the enemy in some kind of culture war. But our goal as Christians should be to help these people find salvation, and they’re only going to find salvation in a community, specifically the community of the Church, and that’s why that’s where we start building these communities.

So there. Now everyone’s mad at me—and I’m happy." Father Stephen De Young