Reviewing Joy Cowley’s Made for Love – Spiritual Reflections for all
Couples (August 7), Lyndsay Freer inevitably references Pope Francis’ quite
unremarkable question, “Who am I to judge?”- which simply states what every
Catholic should know, that judgment is reserved to God alone – and his exhortation to be ‘more loving’.
What exactly does that mean? Because when Jesus says, as quoted by Freer,
that we’ll be known as his disciples if we have love for one another, Jesus is
talking about his kind of loving. Jesus loves propter Deum,
for God’s sake. He’s talking about the love which gives God glory by
helping others towards eternal life.
It’s in faith that Catholics accept the teachings of his Church. It’s in
faith that they believe Christ’s love is inseparable from grace, and that grace
and serious sin are mutually exclusive. So a homosexual couple can’t live ‘in
faith’, except in celibacy.
So I assume that because Made for Love is written by a Catholic,
and reviewed by a Catholic in a Catholic newspaper, these Spiritual
Reflections are meant for gay men and women only if they are
celibate.
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