nostr:npub1n4s8ga4uu8af8aphl8rscs9nxtgh3vpl6seqsgq79dv6ptr6j9eqdpvsnn Perhaps I am still not understanding. Why is metanoia not appropriate for all people?
If by metanoia you mean "a change of mind," there is no virtue in that alone.
The virtue of metanoia is changing from wrong to right, from evil to good. It's not change for its own sake.
With regard to sexual morality, we already know what is right and wrong. To deviate from the Church's constant teaching here is to deviate from truth in a serious way, leading to mortal sin -- which leads to hell.
nostr:npub1n4s8ga4uu8af8aphl8rscs9nxtgh3vpl6seqsgq79dv6ptr6j9eqdpvsnn I can describe the meaning of metanoia through my experience. I experience a foundational and essential conversion when I align on the side of powerlessness and suffering instead of the side of power and control. “Be transformed by a renewal of your mind,” Paul says (Romans 12:2) but unless I empty myself there is no transformation, no metanoia. Paul taught us (Philippians 2:6-8): “he emptied himself” This is metanoia.
That's good.
That kind of conversion will lead a person away from sexual deviancy as we've always understood it. It doesn't mean we will eliminate our concupiscence, but we will have the desire and power to overcome.
But metanoia definitely does not lead us to rethink or want to redefine sexual morality.
