In the previous article, we explored the Roman Catholic canon of excommunication and, in the course of such a discussion, the Roman Catholic doctrine of Church membership. In this one, we shall consider those diverse Roman Catholic teachings and prohibitions concerning human sexuality which may conveniently be lumped under the heading, “Catholic sexuality doctrine.”
I begin by placing the Church’s sexual doctrine in its larger context. As much as it appears that the Church positively fetishizes sex, Her sexual do....