CARE FOR OUR BODIES AND CARE FOR OUR HOME, THE EARTH—GOOD STEWARDSHIP

 Pope Leo, wearing the Saturno, a gift given to him and cordially received, did so at an “Laudatio Si” event at Castel Gandolfo. 

Laudatio Si is a wonderful encyclical by Pope Francis. When it was released and I was pastor of St. Joseph Church in Macon, I gave a series of talks on it at our weekly Wednesday night Church supper and catechesis. 

Stewardship of the earth means care of the earth and not doing anything that permanently damages it leading to an ecological catastrophe for all life, human and otherwise , in a premature way. 

Pope Leo knows the earth is made for man but mankind must care for the earth, use its resources in moderation, respecting, not worshiping, the ground on which we dig, walk and live!

With that said, Lifesite has an interesting article on the disorders of sodomy. While the article is somewhat clinical and thus meant for mature audiences, I think that it would have been a better article and less strident against suffering homosexuals and thus less ideological, if it had focused on stewardship of our bodies and not doing anything unnatural that damages our bodies. Disordered affections can lead to damaging disordered physical acts.

Apart from sodomy, this would include mutilation of our bodies through excessive plastic surgeries, piercings, tattoos and amputations like genital mutilation chemically or surgically of young people who are gender confused and thus need psychiatric, spiritual and moral counseling, not permanent damage to their bodies and minds. 

We can think, too, to other illicit or disordered sex acts that can lead to throat cancer.

We too can think of properly eating food and drink within moderation and avoiding that which kills us prematurely, like the highly processed foods we have in the USA that most people eat the most of avoiding that which is healthy. 

So, with that said, read this “R” rated article meant for mature audiences; press the title:

Science agrees with the Catholic Church: Homosexuality is disordered (It should have been sodomy and unnatural sex acts are disordered and immoral as heterosexuals also practice sodomy and unnatural sex acts.)

As a counterbalance to this article, I prefer the purely Catholic approach to this as written by Archbishop Charles Chaput in September of 2019 when His Excellency was still the Archbishop of Philadelphia. It is a critique of Fr. James Martin, SJ who had given a talk in Philadelphia.

You can read it HERE.