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II. The Vocation to Chastity
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.”137 “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.”138
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 or even extenuate moral culpability.
PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P85.HTM
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 or even extenuate moral culpability.
- SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
- Article 6 THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
- II. The Vocation to Chastity
- Article 6 THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
- CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P85.HTM