Cathologic IV part - IV. Erroneous Bodily and Material Forms of Our Culture Jan Moniak
Autor: Jan Moniak IV. Erroneous Bodily and Material Forms of Our Culture “Bodily gesture, as such, is a bearer of spiritual meaning — of adoration, without which the gesture itself would be meaningless. The spiritual act must, by its very nature and by the body–soul unity of the human person, necessarily express itself in a bodily gesture.” — Cardinal Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy “A doctrine that detaches the moral act from its bodily dimensions contradicts the teaching of Scripture and Tradition. It revives, in new form, the old errors the Church has always fought, for in their view the human person is nothing but ‘spiritual’ freedom, purely formal. This reductionist vision ignores the moral significance of the body and of the acts connected with it (cf. 1 Cor 6:19). Saint Paul declares that neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the licentious, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will i...