hello and welcome to mosaic. i'm here to introduce to you in a moment, my guest father -- and we'll talk about some of the more frequently discussed and believed in and essential teaching to the catholic faith. and i hope you enjoy the show. it will be a quick show because we'll try to cover a lot of ground. but i want to let you know at the web site, sfare muchdiocese.org, you can click on what we believe for a list of those things.

you can go to the page itself. here we go. i like to introduce to you the father who is the vicker for the administration here in san francisco. welcome. >> great to be here again with you, chris. >> you have recently written an article that will be published in the catholic san francisco newspaper that -- there's a great introduction that what we're going to talk about. will you let us note gift let us know about that? >> people tend to follow different trend. and there are always counter cultures and different ethnic groupses and over time, they have an influence. and they can have an influence on institutions that can be

positive or sometimes negative. i have a little example that i use that i think is good. it involves ice cream shops. so over the past 40, 50 years, if you like ice cream, you know when you go into one of the shops, they have lots of toppings, brownies, cookies and other little sweet things that you can have. and that's been the trend. you can imagine that there would be one ice cream shop that said, we make good ice cream and that's what we want to stick to we're -- all these 40 years, they have not been popular. it's a man small chain and now they feel like it is time to them the fact that they're stuck to the basics. and they rename the chain and they call it nothing but ice

cream so this is all emphasis on ice cream. and people they hear about it and they think, my gosh, that is something competely new that is different. and they've been doing the same thing for 40 years. you can make an application to the church like that a lot of things change in society. and they drift away. but as far as institutions are concerned, it is important to let people know that the incident constitution believes the same thing it did 40 years ago and 400 years ago and 2,000 years ago. >> we're going to talk about some of those things. we have a list of some of the main tenants of the faith, for example, the four marks of the church and what does it mean when we say we believe in the true presence of jesus and the eucharist and the big topic. it is an ultimate big topic. and the priesthood.

and people often have questions about the priesthood and life and what is our believe in life and things how to live out a good life and all the things that are connected to the essential teachings of the church and how do we live them out and why do we stand up, for example, like this past weekend, 50,000 people walk down the street, standing up for life all based on one essential issue or believe in life so we'll talk about some of the details of those when we come back. you're watching mosaic and we'll be right back.

i'm going to go through the rest of this list. and we started reading it before the break. and the essential teachings of the church, i'm going read through the rest of them. but the priesthood, the believe in life chasity. and what is chasity. and chasity in one state in life, contraception. homosexual acts and/or enation, -- acts, orientation and marriage and what we believe is marriage and the civil law and reproductive technology and cloning and things like that. this is probably enough for a series of 13 shows. but in a few words in the

church. >> that mean that means that the bishops that are functioning today go back to the apostles. and that means that we believe the scripture and interpretation is linked to tradition that leads us to the next one. >> and that lead to us the next one, imagine steer yum. >> that refer to the bishops led by the holy father and often in an authoritative way. >> what is an essential teaching that you may come out and declare? >> they've done in the past. but with the immaculate

conception was one. it would be possible to declare the sanctity of life and being against that through abortion, that that is evil. the church has teach and that but it has not chosen that in an infallible way. >> the true presence of jesus in the eucharist. >> reporter: that means that jesus is truly present by the blood soul and deveinty. i think that is an enormous challenge in the american society. i see many young people that are good catholics, they just don't get the understanding of the eucharist. and i think part of it is you have to kneel down to receive the eucharist and you have to be focused on christ. that is truly the body and

blood of christ. >> we'll gift website where we can read more about these things. hell and precatory. >> the church has always said that hell exists. the reason they don't say that people under hell is that in the new testament, jesus says who are you to say who will go there? that is god's decision alone. but it means i truly have free choice. i can choose not to love god. i'm not compelled. that is the way he made us and the whole point of the story of adam and eve convenient. >>

>> it purifying us to become part of the saints in heaven. >> the priesthood. >> people get confused on this. there are two types of priests. i'm a priest. and the priests that are serving others. in baptism, right after you pour the water on the baby's hit or the adult's head, do you the crism. and you say you are priest, prophet and king . it is the priest that we all over the sacrifice in the mass. >> thank you. let me talk about life and the belief of life and that it

begins at conception. >> it is all supported by science. once you have the dna -- the church's position is once a woman conceives, if you don't don't intervene and there are no unusual events that is human life. and everything is programmed by god from there on. and it will develop into a baby. and we have to respect that. >> chasity? >> that applies to both you and me and nuns. a chase person means essentially that you look at the other person as a child of god. so not just how pretty she is or whether the guy is handsome or what type of clothings that they wear. but this is a child of god made

in the likeness of god. and we have all of these sexual abilities and we don't use them till it is the appropriate moment like in marriage or for someone single, they don't use them at all. built when they interact with another man or woman all of that comes into play. >> and chasity is living out in treatmenting other humans with dignity and respect. >> yes. >> we'll talk more with the father. and we're cruising some of the basic essential teachings of the catholic faith. you're watching mow say mosaic. we'll be right back.

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a man and come coming together in marriage should be open to the gift of life. so that is something given by god. and they should be part of the marriage, they're open to that. and now, yes, they can be intimate with one another at times where it is less likely that the woman will get pregnant. but still, even if that situation, sometimes it happens. you have to be open to life. it is the openness that we emphasize.

>> that is great. there's so much we could talk about again. homosexual acts, what the church believes believes about homosexual acts. >> acts belong in a certain context. so regular heterosexual acts, and the church believes that the homosexual acts should not occur. and they may have an attraction, a man for another man, but our bodies are not possible that you can be inmate that heterosexuals can be. >> on a natural level.

>> more we can talk about here. and i urge to you study the theology of the body and find out more of many of these things. let's talk about the church's ministry and the concept of the difference of homosexual orientation and acts. >> orientation can be distorted. but the church is still accepting the person as a child of god and a full member of the church. there's no attempt to push the person outside. what the church said is that you cannot act on that and many of our gay and lesbian and brothers and sisters, they want

the inclination, the attraction should be bound to action. that is what they want to say. and the church said no, no. we're all called to chasity. the inclination is quite distinct from the act itself. and i want to speak about the inclination. for most young people, maybe not everyone, but most young people, they're attitudestor attitudes towards heterosexual or homosexual, they are always focused on the physical part. and it is going for one very small competent of the other person. and the church is saying, no, no w no. we have to look at ourselves as

the complicated individuals and we have to explore. so i should not really identify myself as gay. i should not identify myself as heterosexual. i'm a human person. and i'm trying to get to know other people. >> and and the catholic perspective is to a healing part of our culture. to lead to the next one that we're all called to chasity no matter what our state in life. >> and that goes back to what we're saying before. and this is a challenge for many people and married people as well. and we always have to look at the other person. what we don't think of or account in initially or ultimately in the way that is inappropriate with their

commitment. if it is my wife or husband, then a sexual component is appropriate, acting on something. otherwise, for a wife or husband, they cannot be looking at -- a guy cannot be married and looking at women up and down. that would be against chasity for a married man or woman. >> even jesus said if you look for lust, you've committed adultery. >> this is not even going into the area of porn pornography. talking to awoman and talking to friends about that. you're already against chasity.

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love of a man and woman is supposed to remind us of the love of christ and his church. and it is also an disagreement and contract that is the way the church understands this. and in the reason why there can be innullment, in order for to be a true contract you have to fully intend to promise to be married to this man or woman till death parts us. and you have to do that freely. you cannot do it with a gun to your head. unless do i this the baby -- the freedom is important. >> wonderful. wonderful the covenant aspect of marriage. and marriage and civil law and why the church is strong about the perspective there? >> in the united states now every minister or catholic

priest acts on behalf of the government. you register with the government. as you know, the married couple brings a marriage certificate with them. the priest has to sign that and send in and they get the official marriage certificate back again. so the church is the official church witness. but he's also a witness for the state. now, because there are so many people who are changing their understanding of marriage and the definition of marriage, there are priests and ministers that are saying, we should change this. we she get out of the business of being officials of the state. we should just separate the things and it happened in europe. there are a number of catholic countries in europe, and it has been true for decades, if you want to get married, you go to city hall first and you get

them to stamp the thing. so in the afternoon you go to the church or the following day you go to the church and you don't -- you're not intimate with one another till the church. so the church wedding is distinct from it. and the good thing about that is our concept of marriage, traditional marriage is different from civil unions. >> that is a great topic. last thing, reproductive technology and human cloning. >> church is certainly very sympathic to women that want to have children and they have tried and it doesn't work. and they're inclined to think i'm going to do this and get

baby and inseem nature that outside the womb. and there are usually many eggs that are inseem natured placed in the woman and one is used. you can think of it as a medical procedure. but in general this should happen as a result of a loving act not of a surgical act or a medical act. and the church insists on that and how important that is in our society. i'm going ask you folks, if you want to hear or see what the church believes, a little segment about cloning, we have them all lists on our website. we'll be developing that as the weeks go by. and i appreciate you for coming

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