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Keep in mind as you read this blog post that the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) released in 1992 is not infallible. There are significant errors in the CCC, including the constant flip-flopping of the death penalty as I discussed in yesterday’s video. In fact, Pope John Paul II never claimed it was infallible upon its release. He simply said it was a “sure norm.” But he still released a highly-defective catechism.
On the other hand, Pope Clement XIII said that the 16th century Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) contains “that teaching which is the common doctrine of the Church, from which all danger of doctrinal error is absent.” No other catechism released by the Church has ever been said to be free of all “doctrinal error.”
The death penalty in the new CCC is a big problem. But by far, the most destructive line in the new (non-infallible) CCC is #2352:
CCC 2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.” To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
Do you see what is wrong in that paragraph? It says masturbation (or self-abuse) is not a mortal sin if it becomes a habit.
Now, even I admit that there are certain chromosomal disorders (like Trisomy-18, as if the child were to live long enough to do some odd form of self-abuse, or even traumatic brain injuries, aka TBIs) that could certainly reduce culpability in committing a major sin like masturbation. On this recent video, I even discussed how children who have been trafficked may have greatly reduced culpability for otherwise-major sins they commit (especially after having been raped 20,000 times before their 13th birthday.) Of course, this might even include the sin of self-abuse.
But hard cases make bad law.
Continued below.
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Keep in mind as you read this blog post that the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) released in 1992 is not infallible. There are significant errors in the CCC, including the constant flip-flopping of the death penalty as I discussed in yesterday’s video. In fact, Pope John Paul II never claimed it was infallible upon its release. He simply said it was a “sure norm.” But he still released a highly-defective catechism.
On the other hand, Pope Clement XIII said that the 16th century Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) contains “that teaching which is the common doctrine of the Church, from which all danger of doctrinal error is absent.” No other catechism released by the Church has ever been said to be free of all “doctrinal error.”
The death penalty in the new CCC is a big problem. But by far, the most destructive line in the new (non-infallible) CCC is #2352:
CCC 2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. “Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.” “The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose.” For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of “the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved.” To form an equitable judgment about the subjects’ moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
Do you see what is wrong in that paragraph? It says masturbation (or self-abuse) is not a mortal sin if it becomes a habit.
Now, even I admit that there are certain chromosomal disorders (like Trisomy-18, as if the child were to live long enough to do some odd form of self-abuse, or even traumatic brain injuries, aka TBIs) that could certainly reduce culpability in committing a major sin like masturbation. On this recent video, I even discussed how children who have been trafficked may have greatly reduced culpability for otherwise-major sins they commit (especially after having been raped 20,000 times before their 13th birthday.) Of course, this might even include the sin of self-abuse.
But hard cases make bad law.
Continued below.
The Most Destructive Line in the New Catechism
Keep in mind as you read this blog post that the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) released in 1992 is not infallible. There are significant errors in the CCC, including the constant flip-flopping of the death penalty as I discussed in yesterday's video. In fact, Pope John Paul II...
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