Dear Johan:

Thank you for your apology, but to be anti-Christian-religion is to be anti-Catholic. How about not being "anti" anything. Just express that you have disagreements with the Christian religion.

There is no moral teaching in the Old Testament that is not still a sin today. Under the Law of Moses some of those sins received the death penalty (e.g. adultery, witchcraft). Jesus, however, did away with those penalties. When the woman caught in adultery was brought to Jesus, the people wanted to stone her. Jesus said, "You without sin, cast the first stone."

Jesus was telling us that we are not to condemn people. He did not say that we cannot judge the truth about someone. Jesus never chastised the people for identifying the woman as an adulteress, he chastised them for wanting to condemn her to death.

The Catholic Church does not now, and never has, imposed the death penalty on anyone. Heresy or any sin has never had a penalty of death in the Catholic Church. The worst penality in the Catholic Church is anathama (I form of excommunication).

Homosexual sex was sin in the Old Testament and it is a sin in the New Testament, and it is a sin today. It will always be a sin. But, we do not condemn anyone.

I can tell you that you are sinning and that you are "risking" your soul to hell for this illicit sex if you do not repent, but I cannot condemn you to hell. I cannot know if you will go to hell. I cannot know whether or not any person goes to hell, or heaven for that matter (except those people the Church declare Saints). The Church, however, never declares any person, not even Judas, to be in hell. We do not know. This is for God to judge, not us.

I will pray that you are healed of your homosexuality (some people are) or at least choose to be chaste for the sake of your soul. Baring that, I pray that you are in some sort of diminished capacity that impairs your ability to make a true free choice to commit this sin. If you do have some sort of diminished capacity, which only God knows, that means that your culpability may be reduced. If that is the case then you may end up in heaven despite your lifestyle (by the skin of your teeth ).

On the Gnostic Gospels: The Church rejects the Gnostic Gospels because they are not genuine gospels. These texts teach things that are heresy, that are contrary to what Jesus and the Apostles taught.

To give an analogy: Let us say that 1000 years from now archaeologist find two documents. Both documents claim to be the list of the Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. One document says that Americans have a the right to free speech, and the second document says that Americans have no right to free speech. Which is the genuine document?

Any document we find must conform to the original teachings. In the analogy the second document does not agree with the original document of the Amendments. Thus, the second document was not a true founding-document of the United States.

St. Paul warns us in 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough.

And also in Galatians 1:6-7

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel--not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

The Gnostic "gospels" are a different gospel and a different Jesus that what was taught in the first century by the Apostles.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary