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Offline 2Vermont

Church Teaching on Opposite Sex Interactions
« on: March 08, 2022, 03:00:19 PM »
Does anyone know what the Church moral teaching is regarding what constitutes appropriate interaction [including in-person, online, emails, texts, or phone calls] with members of the opposite sex [including interactions of single folks with married folks and married folks with other married folks]?  As Catholics, are we supposed to be careful in this regard so as not to cause scandal, occasions of sin, etc.? I thought I recall hearing/reading about this somewhere along the line.

Not sure if that makes sense, but thanks in advance!

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Offline Matthew

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Re: Church Teaching on Opposite Sex Interactions
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2022, 04:06:48 PM »
It's a good question, but it brings up a point --

I think the Church used to rely on the Faithful having a bit of common sense.

Did the Church have to release a specific encyclical against each of 1000 forms of sin against the Sixth and Ninth: porn novels, porn magazines, "gentleman's clubs", and 50 other occasions of sin? Or do they content themselves with prohibitions against "occasions of sin" and leave the application to common sense?

And for those with no common sense, and/or the IQ of a gerbil, then the fallback "ask your priest" should suffice to cover it.

I bet you can't find a single Church docuŠ¼ent or prohibition against porn websites, for example -- unless you cite something general and vague. Which is fine, and as it should be. The Church can't be expected to spell out every specific sin.

For example, we can rely on the Golden Rule. If you wouldn't like your wife going out to dinner with a strange man, then YOU shouldn't be that strange man going out to dinner with another man's wife.

If you wouldn't want some sleazebag doing such-and-such to your wife, then you shouldn't do those things with another woman. And so on.
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Offline DigitalLogos

Re: Church Teaching on Opposite Sex Interactions
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2022, 04:21:03 PM »
The best rule is for husbands not to hang around other women without the wife present, and vice-versa.
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Offline Philothea3

Re: Church Teaching on Opposite Sex Interactions
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2022, 04:28:30 PM »
Quote from: Matthew on March 08, 2022, 04:06:48 PM
It's a good question, but it brings up a point --

I think the Church used to rely on the Faithful having a bit of common sense.

Did the Church have to release a specific encyclical against each of 1000 forms of sin against the Sixth and Ninth: porn novels, porn magazines, "gentleman's clubs", and 50 other occasions of sin? Or do they content themselves with prohibitions against "occasions of sin" and leave the application to common sense?

And for those with no common sense, and/or the IQ of a gerbil, then the fallback "ask your priest" should suffice to cover it.

I bet you can't find a single Church docuŠ¼ent or prohibition against porn websites, for example -- unless you cite something general and vague. Which is fine, and as it should be. The Church can't be expected to spell out every specific sin.

For example, we can rely on the Golden Rule. If you wouldn't like your wife going out to dinner with a strange man, then YOU shouldn't be that strange man going out to dinner with another man's wife.

If you wouldn't want some sleazebag doing such-and-such to your wife, then you shouldn't do those things with another woman. And so on.
I agree with what you're saying generally but we all know we live in a post-revolution degenerate war that preaches "you can choose your own sex" as common sense and most people go to co-ed schools and know not boundaries between opposite sex (myself as an example).
The only thing I could find is from this kinda infamous TIA website but it was helpful 
https://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/C065_Court_1.htm
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Offline epiphany

Re: Church Teaching on Opposite Sex Interactions
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2022, 09:53:02 PM »
Quote from: DigitalLogos on March 08, 2022, 04:21:03 PM
The best rule is for husbands not to hang around other women without the wife present, and vice-versa.
I was told is borders on adultery if a married man is ever alone with a woman (married or single), for it may put the man in a near occasion of mortal sin. 

the Bible speaks about any man who lusts after a woman with his eyes has already committed adultery in his heart.
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