How do Catholics know which OT laws are moral and which are merely civil or ritual?
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The NT introduces a new dimension to many of the laws " Although Aquinas believed the specifics of the Old Testament judicial laws were no longer binding, he taught that the judicial precepts contained universal principles of justice that reflected natural law."
Just as the Commandment against murder only added a divine sanction against something everybody already known from reason as wrong. So now God was saying "murder is wrong as you know but it is also killing one of my children so you have committed a divine offense in doing this"
The mixing of fabrics and beasts was a physical exemplification of the spiritual truth about 1) doing the right thing even if you don't grasp why and 2) that there are natures to things and they should be respected.
Hence this has 2 levels of meaning: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
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