Pope Francis Minimizes Chastity, Tolerates Homosexuality and Adultery

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by Luiz Sérgio SolimeoFebruary 12, 2025 https://www.tfp.org/pope-francis-minimizes-chastity-tolerates-homosexuality-and-adultery/?PKG=TFPE3540

Pope Francis Minimizes Chastity, Tolerates Homosexuality and Adultery

In his new book, Hope: The Autobiography,¹ Pope Francis repeats facts about his life and family and makes doctrinal statements against traditional Church teaching.

Don’t Sins of the Flesh Matter?

Speaking about homosexuality, Pope Francis says that it is not a crime but “a human fact” and “God the Father loves them with the same unconditional love, He loves them as they are.”²

To say that God loves homosexuals “as they are” suggests that God loves them as sinners, which is absurd.³ Saint Thomas explains, after quoting the Psalmist, “Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity”⁴ (5:7), that God loves all men as his creatures, but as sinners, “under this aspect, they are hated by Him.“⁵

Pope Francis’s statements are all the more serious because he considers that sins against chastity have little gravity.

“Sexual sins,” he says, “tend to cause more of an outcry from some people. But they are really not the most serious. They are human sins, of the flesh.” For him, “the most serious…are the sins that have more ‘angelicity,’ that dress themselves in another guise: pride, hatred, falsehood, fraud, abuse of power.”⁶

However, whether of the spirit or the flesh, according to traditional doctrine, every mortal sin “deprives the soul of sanctifying grace and makes it deserving of hell.“⁷ Therefore, even though there is a gradation in mortal sins, with more serious and less severe, all equally lead to eternal damnation, and every consummated act of lust is mortal.⁸

Every grave sin is a revolt against God and thus somehow participates in the revolt of the demons, the evil angels. This is why St. John says, “[h]e that committeth sin is of the devil.”⁹

Downplaying the Virtue of Chastity

By considering the sin of impurity as not that serious, Pope Francis indirectly diminishes the importance of the so-called angelic virtue of chastity. For if impurity is not important, neither will the opposite virtue have the importance the Church and the saints have always attributed to it, which has led so many virgins to prefer martyrdom rather than losing it.

Pope Francis’s minimizing of the virtue of chastity becomes more evident in his answers to Portuguese Jesuits during his 2023 trip to Portugal.

In one response, he spoke of the preoccupation with chastity as something outdated:

“When I was a novice, they used to talk to us about chastity, holy chastity. They used to ask us not to be looking at pictures that were a little bit racy…I mean, those were other times.”¹⁰

He made his disinterest in the practice of chastity even clearer to another Jesuit who asked about homosexuality.

“It is clear that today, the issue of homosexuality is very strong, and the sensitivity in this regard changes according to historical circumstances. But what I don’t like at all, in general, is that we look at the so-called ‘sin of the flesh’ with a magnifying glass, just as we have done for so long for the sixth commandment. If you exploited workers, if you lied or cheated, it didn’t matter, and instead sins below the waist were relevant.”¹¹

Wasn’t this change in mentality on the importance of the virtue of chastity what led to the sexual scandals afflicting the Church today?

In addition, this change of mindset is what made possible for Pope Francis to approve the blessing of homosexual “couples” and adulterous unions in Fiducia supplicans.¹²

The Consequences of Lust

Because of its vehemence, the sin of lust influences the whole of man, darkens his mind, distances him from holy things and the desire for heaven, and causes many other sins. For this reason, the Fathers of the Church have included it among the capital sins, which are serious faults that provoke others.

Traditionally, the sins derived from impurity are spiritual blindness, rashness, inconsideration, inconstancy, inordinate self-love, hatred of God, attachment to this life and horror of the next.¹³

The Apostle Saint Paul is very clear about the impure person’s eternal damnation:

“Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.“¹⁴

“Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God”

On the contrary, Sacred Scripture praises those who keep chastity: “O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.”¹⁵

The prize for those who love and guard their purity is the greatest one can receive: to see God for all eternity, as Our Lord says in the Sermon on the Mount—“Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.“¹⁶

This perennial Church doctrine has always been the path to eternal bliss: seeing God is the greatest happiness one can possess.

By minimizing or implicitly denying the seriousness of sins against chastity—the angelic virtue—Pope Francis is not leading the flock to happiness but eternal damnation because, as mentioned earlier, “[h]e that committeth sin is of the devil.“¹⁷