ROME — Progressive San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy has doubled down in his defense of active homosexuality, asserting that gay sex is not necessarily a serious sin. Individual conscience always trumps Catholic moral teaching, the cardinal asserts in a March 2 article in the Jesuit-run America magazine, so all those who think they should be receiving Holy Communion at Mass should be encouraged to do so, regardless of the objective evil of their moral choices. While Catholic teaching has an essential role in moral decision-making, "it is conscience that has the privileged place," he states. The Catholic Church teaches that members of the faithful who are aware of having committed a grave sin should repent and seek forgiveness before receiving Communion, whereas Cardinal McElroy suggests that those who have committed objectively serious sins and intend to keep doing so should partake in Communion anyway. The cardinal gets around this problem by suggesting that sodomy is not necessarily a serious sin, especially if a person's conscience has no problem with it. One assumes that the same principle must apply in the case of other sins such as rape, theft, and the sexual abuse of children, as long as conscience has no… Read full this story
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