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DEXTERA DOMINI
The Declarationon the Pastoral Careof Left-Handed Persons
 
Introduction
The right hand of the Lord has adorned his spotless bride, theChurch, with many wondrous gifts, not the least of which is thesupreme ministry of defending the arsenal of Christian truth.Through the wisdom of a provident God, this congregation, thewatchdog of the household of faith, exercises diligent custody over the sacred deposit of doctrine, guarding it like a talent buried in thesand (Matt. 25:25). To this richly satisfying task it brings the feralinstincts of a lioness protecting her cubs and the dispassionate zeal of a raptor pursuing its prey, so that the pearl of great price may besafely gathered up with the wheat and deposited in the nets of Peter's bark (Matt. 13:46; 13:30; John 21:6). Wherefore it seeks to infiltratethe entire Catholic world, like leaven mixed into a lump of dough(Matt. 13:33), and so, like yeast, to ferment the pilgrim Church withits viscid and fungal spores so that the entire mass may swell into afrothy, pulsating, gelatinous ooze of faith. Thus, like a prudenthouseholder, it may bring forth from its storeroom both the true andthe old (Matt. 13:52).Having already disposed of other perversions, it becomes necessaryto speak out with the profound disgust regarding yet another aberration which, like the pulling of a polyester fiber, threatens tounravel the seamless garment of faith.This particular menace has been propagated by those who, basingtheir opinions on spurious sophisms of the psychological and behavioral pseudo-sciences, claim that it is acceptable, or evennormal, to use the left hand when engaging in manual activities. Inthe face of tradition and right reason, they point to a small but vocalminority of individuals who primarily use their left hands or purportto be bimanual. With callous disregard for the natural order they judge indulgently, and even excuse completely, sinistral behavior,that is, the indiscriminate use of the left hand in the place of the right.Such an insidious abuse is defended as though there were no
 
difference between right or left, Jew or Greek, male or female, slaveor free (Gal. 3:28).For while it is neither possible nor desirable at present to decidewhether this disorder is genetic in origin or merely the result of repeated nasty thoughts, in either case one may never argue that left-handedness is compulsive and therefore excusable. It is, of course,necessary to take note of the distinction between the sinistralcondition and the individual left-handed actions, which areintrinsically disordered and utterly wrong.And although the particular inclination of the left-handed person isnot necessarily a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency orderedtoward an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must beseen as an objective disorder. Therefore, both the condition and allacts flowing from it are to be condemned, as are all those who suffer from it or engage in it, and everyone who thinks like them or defendsthem or befriends them, into everlasting torments in the lowest pit of hell where the lake of fire is never quenched and the worm dies not(Mark 9:48).
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