<div>Rev. GEOFFRY KERSLAKE is a priest of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Ottawa.
A basic moral principle for Catholic Christians is that we should always treat other people with respect and never use them as objects or a means to getting our own way.
When we catch a glimpse of an attractive person on the street, for example, the first few moments when we notice her or him and think to ourselves how beautiful they are, those thoughts are not sinful. But when we catch ourselves staring at someone, and thinking lustful thoughts about them, is where we begin to sin because other people do not exist for our pleasure or to be treated as an object to admire or covet.
Even though we may not have acted on those thoughts, when we deliberately entertain them we have disrespected another person
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A basic moral principle for Catholic Christians is that we should always treat other people with respect and never use them as objects or a means to getting our own way.
When we catch a glimpse of an attractive person on the street, for example, the first few moments when we notice her or him and think to ourselves how beautiful they are, those thoughts are not sinful. But when we catch ourselves staring at someone, and thinking lustful thoughts about them, is where we begin to sin because other people do not exist for our pleasure or to be treated as an object to admire or covet.
Even though we may not have acted on those thoughts, when we deliberately entertain them we have disrespected another person
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