Your Sexual Pathology Doesn’t Make You Special, by Thomas V. Mirus

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic Culture, March 06, 2025

Thomas V. Mirus is President of Trinity Communications and Director of Podcasts for CatholicCulture.org, hosts The Catholic Culture Podcast, and co-hosts Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast.

Those in the social mainstream have always justified themselves by contrast with the kinds of sins their milieu deems most shameful. The arrogant, self-righteous, and repressed within respectable society either deny their own sins outright, or cover them over as less egregious than the sins of the socially unacceptable. Christ overturned this when he told the chief priests and the elders that tax collectors and prostitutes would go to heaven before them.

It has long been understood that the reason our Lord preferred the company of the disreputable is precisely because they knew they were sinners. The Pharisees, on the other hand, denied the reality that without God’s grace, we are all on the moral margins. The Lord spoke so sternly with them because their attitude was blocking the very possibility of accepting His mercy. …

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