Sirach, Chapter 7, Verse 29
With all your soul fear God
and revere his priests.
Yes, revere your priests
but do not be a ninny, remember Christ was killed by the priests of his time. Evil
men and women do hide in sheep’s clothing. Be smart; protect yourself and your
children.
The FBI estimates that there is a sex offender
living in every square mile of the United States. One in ten men has molested
children. Most child molesters are able to molest dozens of children before
they are caught and have a three percent (3%) chance of being apprehended for their
crimes. Boys and girls are at nearly equal risk to be abused and almost a
quarter will be molested sometime before their 18th birthday. Fewer than
five percent (5%) will tell anyone. The overwhelming majority of child victims
are abused by someone they know and trust, someone most parents would never
suspect. No one can protect your children but you. Educate yourself and your
family about child sexual abuse. Don’t let a child molester do it for you![1]
Talk to your children about this. Good
information is available from the US Department of Justice.[2]
Catechism of the Catholic Church
II. THE VOCATION TO CHASTITY cont.
Offenses
against chastity
2351 Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual
pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself,
isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.
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.
2353 Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried
woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human
sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation
and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is
corruption of the young.
2354 Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the
intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third
parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act,
the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the
dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one
becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses
all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense.
Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of
pornographic materials.
2355 Prostitution does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in
it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who
pays sins gravely against himself: he violates the chastity to which his
Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men,
children, and adolescents (The latter two cases involve the added sin of
scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, the
imputability of the offense can be attenuated by destitution, blackmail, or
social pressure.
2356 Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another
person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the
respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a
right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always
an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by
parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children
entrusted to them.
[1]http://www.wcsap.org/sites/wcsap.huang.radicaldesigns.org/files/uploads/documents/ProtectingYourChildren.pdf
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