Letters

Homosexuality

Anne Lastman

Contents - Feb 2015 - Buy a copy now Editorial: A request for your assistance - Peter Westmore Consistory: Pope Francis names twenty new Cardinals - AD2000 Report News: The Church Around the World The survival of the Church - Fr John O'Neill PP Vatican report lays bare problems in US religious life - AD2000 Report Martyrdom: Would I have had their courage? - Cardinal George Pell The Pope and the Holocaust: why did Pius XII not speak out? - Robert A. Graham SJ The family and the Church in 2015 - Archbishop Mark Coleridge Brisbane: powerhouse of Catholic young adult ministry - Br Barry Coldrey The Eighteen Benedictions of Judaism ... and Christianity - Andrew Sholl What Pope Francis really said to the Roman Curia - AD2000 Report Letters: Catholic education - Allan Choveaux Letters: Smartphone apps 'very suspect' - Elizabeth Afribo Letters: A rejoinder to Anne Lastman - Charles M. Shann Letters: Mary in St John's Gospel - Dr Frank Mobbs Letters: The Church in China - Paul Simmons Letters: Homosexuality - Anne Lastman Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson - Michael E. Daniel (reviewer) Books: MY BATTLE AGAINST HITLER, by Dietrich von Hildebrand - Kate Veik (reviewer) Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy - Anne Lastman

Further to Frank O'Connor's letter in the December issue of AD2000, I thank him for his encouraging words however, I would have to disagree with him.

On the term to be used for homosexual individuals of either gender, I personally intensely dislike the word "sodomites". It is such a pejorative term and almost hate-filled.

I am always reminded of the late Pope, St John Paul II, and his comment that a human remains a human being even in their darkest moments, and this being so, we remember the divine image which is embedded even in the homosexual person.

We further know that as long as the individual lives there can always be a moment of grace where the passing by of the Holy Spirit animates a change and assists a conversion.

I hope and pray for every homosexual person that their wounded sexuality will be healed.

ANNE LASTMAN
Melbourne, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 28 No 1 (February 2015), p. 16