‘Deviation’ only word to describe gender theory and homosexual ‘marriage’
Gender theory, homosexual “marriage” and “the negation of the
difference between man and woman are all deviations,” Cardinal Robert Sarah
told Italians recently at a presentation of his book God or
Nothing.
In France, “they corrected me, they said I cannot use the word
‘deviation’, but I would not know which other word to use,” added the prefect
for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
“I also cannot deny that God created man and woman.”
Italian journalist Marco Tossatti reported
the cardinal’s outspoken remarks on gender theory, which Catholic writer Maike
Hickson has translated into English.
“Even fools recognize that, between a man and a woman, there is
a difference and a complementarity. Man is nothing without a woman and vice
versa,” Sarah said.
“This is not my own position, this is the position of the
Church, and all Christians, all families, are called to fight against this
deviation.”
“I do not understand how the European culture – so steeped in
Christianity – could get to such a point,” noted Sarah.
The cardinal’s book God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith,
published January 2016, is a wide-ranging interview between the Guinean
cardinal and French journalist Nicholas Diat in which the cardinal asserts,
among other things, that “the most difficult thing for the postmodern world is
to believe in God and in his only Son.”
According to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Sarah’s book also
offers “courageous answers to the problems of gender theory” that “clear up in
a nebulous world a fundamental anthropological question.” The former pontiff
noted he read it with “great spiritual profit, joy and gratitude.”
Here's how the Catechism of the Catholic Church treats
homosexuality:
2357 Homosexuality refers to
relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or
predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a
great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological
genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which
presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always
declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They
are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life.
They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under
no circumstances can they be approved.
2358 The number of men and
women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This
inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a
trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every
sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are
called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to
unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter
from their condition.
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity.
By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the
support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can
and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
