LifeSiteNews.com has an excellent talk from John-Henry Westen to the Fifth Annual World Prayer Congress for Life in Rome earlier this month:
Have you ever noticed that almost the whole of the culture war is centered on sexuality?
Abortion, Same-sex ‘marriage’, contraception, adultery, pornography, promiscuity, sex-education, divorce, homosexuality, in vitro fertilization, even embryonic stem cell research are all related to sexuality.
When I first heard philosopher Peter Kreeft make that observation, it brought to mind the warning of Our Lady of Fatima as related by Blessed Jacinta Marto: “More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason.”
But, why?
Pope John Paul II noted in his Theology of the Body, the sacred union of man and woman in marriage – the conjugal union – is a prime image stamped in mankind of the Trinitarian relationship to which we are called in the life to come. The fathers describe the Trinity as the Father loving the Son completely and the Son the Father completely and that complete giving of Themselves is Itself the Holy Spirit. It is also a key image of Christ’s relationship with His Church.
Now, if you were Satan and had as your primary objective to steer mankind away from heaven and Christ, would that not be your first area of attack – to distort the most prominent image of the Trinitarian relationship and that of Christ with His Church?
It is in this arena that we must therefore concentrate much of our effort in winning souls back to Christ. Unfortunately, the ways in which we have communicated the Church’s truth on sexuality, or failed to communicate it, have for the most part helped us to lose the majority of Catholics.