While I do not agree that 5 year olds need to learn about homosexuality or masturbation and other such things, I also do not think it’s harmful to ground our children, even from a young age, in a proper understanding of human sexuality – what our bodies are made for, why we are created as male and female, etc… This … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Beware of False Prophets
Everyday my local newspaper quotes a Scripture passage on the top corner of the “Opinion” page. Today’s passage was from 2 Peter: There were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who ransomed them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. These words of … Read More
Betraying Kids With Condoms
Sometimes I just have to weep for our young people – not just because of the decisions they make themselves, but for the way they are constantly betrayed by the adults who should be protecting them. Case in point ( h/t CMR): [DailyMail] Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 could soon be on our shelves. The Hotshot … Read More
“Every Life is Valuable, or No Life is Valuable”
Jenny Senour Uebbing hits a home run with this post on the Duggars, MTV, teenage pregnancy and the value of every human life! It’s too good to give a teaser, just go read the whole thing. Jenny blogs at A Great Deception and can be read at Catholic Exchange’s Theology of the Body Channel. P.S. CONGRATULATIONS, Jenny on the new … Read More
Sexual Health
On the radio yesterday I heard two commercials, back to back, for Planned Parenthood promoting “sexual health” by advertising their contraceptive services and the morning after pill. Health? Really? Ladies, a normally functioning reproductive cycle is not a health problem. If you have sex and get pregnant, it doesn’t mean that something went wrong; it means that something went beautifully … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The National TOB Congress!
Mark your calendars: The National Theology of the Body Congress is set for this summer! The three day event, from July 28-30, will feature speeches, workshops, panels, drama, music and more with some of today’s top TOB speakers and educators, like: Justin Cardinal Rigali: is the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Fr. Richard Hogan: co-author of three books on … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Oprah Schooled on Celibacy
Today the Oprah Winfrey Show explored religious life with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist – a thriving religious community located in Ann Arbor, MI. For the show Lisa Ling, an Oprah reporter, spent a day – and night – with the sisters at their monastery in Michigan. You can read her story online as well as … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Sex+God=Freedom!
In the name of freedom sex has very little to do with God or spirituality for people in our modern society. Heck, oftentimes it’s even devoid of any kind of real love or emotion! They consider themselves sexually free who see sex as nothing more than a physical sort of recreational activity and don’t let little things like God or … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The Purpose of Our Existence
As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you. (Is 62:5) A friend of mine had this as her Facebook status today: “If the human body is really God’s image in the visible world, then the deep and powerful attraction we feel … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Sex, Life and Death
In a column for Catholic Exchange not too long ago, Dr. Mark Dendrickson commented on the increasing incidence of men killing their pregnant lovers and how the “culture of death” has progressed this far. The driving force: Another powerful anti-life undertow was generated by the “sexual revolution.” For many, the Judeo-Christian concept of sex for procreation was eclipsed by the … Read More