"orientation, tendency, disposition and activity"

Zephyr Institute

"the expression used in official Roman documents and in Papal addresses on the issue . . . is not 'orientation' but 'deep seated tendencies'—in Italian originals tendenze omosessuali profondamente."
"between orientation and habitual action lies disposition."
"bishops, religious superiors, and directors of seminaries need to attend to the fourfold distinction:  orientation, tendency, disposition and activity (which in terms of the scholastic Aristotelian categories some might once have been taught correspond to different levels of potentiality and actuality:  for Aristotle dunamis and energeia).  And having learned that, the task is to apply it practically to establish a barrier so as to inhibit the occurrence of the fourth.  That wall needs to be placed after orientation, for by the time tendencies and dispositions have developed it is likely to be too late. . . ."
"At any rate, no good outcome can be hoped for until this painful nettle is grasped. . . ."

     John Haldane, "It’s Déjà vu all over again," New Blackfriars 100, no. 1087 (May 2019):  258-261 (249-263).