6th commandment
- 1. 6th commandment “Happy are the pure of heart: they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
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- 4. You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ."The sixth commandment upholds chastity as a moral virtue, a gift from God, a grace, a fruit of spiritual effort.
- 5. Jesus came to restore creation to the purity of its origins ... The tradition of the Church has understood the sixth commandment as encompassing the whole of human sexuality
- 6. All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has 'put on Christ,' the model for all chastity ... Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure ... 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 ... 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.”
- 7. Adultery refers to marital infidelity. When two partners, of whom at least one is married to another party, have sexual relations—even transient ones—they commit adultery. The Catholic Catechism begins its teaching on this commandment with a positive summary of God’s creation of men and women and his purposes for sex within marriage. These purposes include unifying husband and wife, demonstrating unselfish, even generous love between them, and producing children. "God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them. He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply …” (Genesis 1:27-28).
- 8. According to the Catechism, those who are engaged must refrain from sexual relations until after the marriage ceremony. This exercise of restraint in order to keep the commandment against adultery is also seen as important practice for fidelity within marriage: Those who are engaged to marry are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and the hope of receiving one another from God. They should reserve for marriage the expressions of affection that belong to married love. They will help each other grow in chastity.
- 9. Chastity for the married Catholic is not abstention from sexual relations, but the enjoyment of God-given sexuality within marriage only. The tradition of the Catholic Church has understood the commandment against adultery as encompassing the whole of human sexuality and so pornography is declared a violation of this commandment. Several other sexual activities that may or may not involve married persons are also directly addressed and prohibited in the Catechism. Adultery is viewed not only as a sin between an individual and God but as an injustice that reverberates through society by harming its fundamental unit, the family:
- 10. Adultery is an injustice. He who commits adultery fails in his commitment. He does injury to the sign of the covenant which the marriage bond is, transgresses the rights of the other spouse, and undermines the institution of marriage by breaking the contract on which it is based. He compromises the good of human generation and the welfare of children who need their parents' stable union.
- 13. Chastity is a moral virtue. It is also a gift from God, a grace, a fruit of spiritual effort. The Holy Spirit enables one whom the water of baptism has regenerated to imitate the purity of Christ. Chastity
- 14. To be chaste means to use our sexuality according to the will of God. Those who are married must love their spouse, be faithful, and have children. Those who are not married must not abstain from any sexual activity. Chastity is possible with the help of prayer, self-control, and avoidance of the occasions of sin.
- 15. The chaste man will always be happy and blessed by God. As the Scriptures proclaim: “Happy are all those who fear Yahweh and follow in his paths. You will eat what your hands have worked for, happiness and prosperity will be yours. Your wife: a fruitful vine on the inner walls of your house. Your sons around your table like shoots round on olive tree” (Psalm 128:1-3)
- 16. Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man’s belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman. The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of gift.
- 18. Lust It is a disordered uncontrolled desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is Morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.
- 19. Masturbation It is a sin because it is against the proper use of sexuality, which implies love for the spouse and opening to the gift of life.
- 20. 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.
- 21. Pornography To sell, buy, or use pornographic material is a sin, because it reduces the human body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit, to a depraved means of arousal and pleasure.
- 22. Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partner, 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 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.
- 23. Prostitution To buy and sell the human body for the sake of profit and pleasure is a scandalous sin, which the Scriptures compare to idolatry. As St. Paul said: “Your bodies are members making up the body of Christ; do you think I can take parts of Christ’s body and join them to the body and join them to the body of a prostitute? Never!” (1 Corinthians 6 : 15).
- 24. 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 if the Holy Spirit. Prostitution is a social scourge. It is 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.
- 25. Fornication It is the sexual union between man and woman outside the sacrament of Marriage. Those who practice pre- marital sex, who live-in, or who have only civil marriage, are also guilty of fornication. Before having intercourse, the faithful must be married, as Jesus said: “A man must leave father and mother, and the two become one body” (Mark 10:7).
- 26. Fonication is carnal union between an unmarried man and 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 generation and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young.
- 27. Homosexuality Whoever has a sexual relation with a person of the same sex is committing a very serious sin, as St. Paul said: “The sodomites will never inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6 : 9-10).
- 28. Child Abuse To have sexual relations with minor is a hateful sin; as Jesus said: “Anyone who is an obstacle to bring down one of these little ones who have faith, would be better thrown into the sea with a great milestone round his neck” (Mark 9 : 42).
- 29. Rape It 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
- 30. Artificial Birth Control Married couples who use contraceptives commit sin because they deprive the family, the Church, and the society, of the society, of the gift of children. Every marital act must express love and be open to life. To restricts the number of children for selfish reasons betrays the mission received from God, who said: “Be fruitful and multiply: (Genesis 1 : 28).
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