Our society’s ideals and morals begin to change, the line between right and wrong begins to blur. The Catholic Church realizes its obligation to reflect on the meaning of love within a family and couples while keeping in mind the communities ever changing customs. In Dante Alighieri’s poem The Inferno, Dante references Sodom, the city in the Bible that was destroyed with fire and Brimstone. The people of this city were punished for engaging in consensual homosexual acts, likewise Dante created a circle designated for Sodomy, emphasizing the agreement that Dante has with Catholic teaching. In the new document Amoris Laetitia, the pope references this ideologies and affirms the church’s ways will not change in the future but speaks of the importance
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The Catholic Church defines homosexual acts as sinful for their denial of God’s gift of life, and under no circumstance can they be approved. The church continues to affirm that the only kind of marriage that exists …show more content…
When two people are married they express their love for each other with words and physical interactions. From the Catholic Church’s perspective marriage is a lifelong agreement between a man and woman. The church teaches that the sexual union between a man and a woman is create a union and be open to the creation of new life. When couple’s decided that they want to engage in sexual activity and deliberately attempt suppress fertility then they are denying God’s gift. The meaning of sexual intercourse then begins to change and is no longer as significant as it used to be. Using contraception undermines the meaning of what it means to be a married couple under Gods ordinance and it also weakens the couple’s relationship. Of course, there are many circumstances in which intercourse occurs without the intention of procreation. Whether it be because of emotional, financial or physical reasons the Pope continues to stand by the church’s moral doctrine to deny contraception, “Hence no genital act of husband and wife can refuse this meaning, even when for various reasons it may not always, in fact, beget a new life." (Amoris Laetitia, 56) Sexuality that is not expectant of new life is evil for its violence towards nature. In Dante’s The Inferno sexuality is addressed in a couple of Cantos. People who are married and engage in unnatural sexual activity would be in the seventh circle of Hell.
The Catholic Church defines homosexual acts as sinful for their denial of God’s gift of life, and under no circumstance can they be approved. The church continues to affirm that the only kind of marriage that exists …show more content…
When two people are married they express their love for each other with words and physical interactions. From the Catholic Church’s perspective marriage is a lifelong agreement between a man and woman. The church teaches that the sexual union between a man and a woman is create a union and be open to the creation of new life. When couple’s decided that they want to engage in sexual activity and deliberately attempt suppress fertility then they are denying God’s gift. The meaning of sexual intercourse then begins to change and is no longer as significant as it used to be. Using contraception undermines the meaning of what it means to be a married couple under Gods ordinance and it also weakens the couple’s relationship. Of course, there are many circumstances in which intercourse occurs without the intention of procreation. Whether it be because of emotional, financial or physical reasons the Pope continues to stand by the church’s moral doctrine to deny contraception, “Hence no genital act of husband and wife can refuse this meaning, even when for various reasons it may not always, in fact, beget a new life." (Amoris Laetitia, 56) Sexuality that is not expectant of new life is evil for its violence towards nature. In Dante’s The Inferno sexuality is addressed in a couple of Cantos. People who are married and engage in unnatural sexual activity would be in the seventh circle of Hell.