Part II of Fr. Peter West’s look at homosexuality and the Theology of the Body: True love is demanding. The source of the beauty of this love is its demanding nature. That is why true love builds up the true good of man and allows it to radiate to others. St. Paul gives us the definition of love in 1 … Read More
TOB Tues: Homosexuality and the TOB
Fr. Peter West takes a look at homosexuality and the Theology of the Body: Polls show that most young people today, even those who identify themselves as Christians, have no problem with “same-sex marriage.” If young people today are at all aware of what the Catholic Church teaches about marriage and human sexuality, what they think they know is often … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Sexuality, Sacrifice and Love
Fr. Robert Barron:
TOB Tues: Sexuality and the Culture War
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 … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Homosexuality
Since Congress is considering repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell this week – possibly by Thursday – I thought this was a good subject for today’s TOB Tuesday post. In a column for Catholic Exchange’s Theology of the Body Channel, Robert Colquhoun explains the Church’s teaching on homosexuality while respecting the sensitivities of those afflicted with same sex attraction: There has … Read More
Reclaiming the Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality
Regarding the WHO abortion study that I mentioned in Wednesday’s post another conclusion that many come to upon seeing the numbers of abortions carried out world wide is that something must be done to prevent so many “unwanted pregnancies” in the first place. Now that is a rational conclusion. What is irrational, however, is the promotion of contraception as a … Read More
Disabled People Are “Sexy,” Too!
Gianna Jessen rocks my world! On Twitter the other night she said: “i write about the realities of limping through this world, and the pain of it. but what’s funny is, i feel sexy as hell. so i’m still on the painful road, but i don’t believe i’m ugly anymore. and i believe this road of much sorrow will grant … Read More
Diaz: “Sex is My Favorite Sport”
Spoken like a true lady: “Sex is my favorite sport,” Diaz gushed while promoting her new movie, “Bad Teacher.” “Sex is the sexiest word in the English language,” she says in the June issue of Maxim Magazine. “Just the word is sexy to me. There’s something to it, don’t you think?” Diaz, 38, who is cast as a foul-mouthed school … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The Mystery of Sex and Love
Brendan Roberts has a great Theology of the Body primer up at Catholic Exchange: Sexual messages are thrust upon us almost everywhere we turn. The sexual content of most television programs are helping to form the morals of the young generation especially. Therefore there are constant themes of making marital infidelity, sex divorced from covenantal relationships, contraception, active homosexuality, lying, … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Sex Doesn’t Have “Consequences”
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill. Ahhh, Contraception. How you have enriched our society! Let me count the ways: infidelity, divorce, pornography, prostitution, STDs, out of wed lock/teen pregnancy and, of course, abortion. Sure, these things existed before your invention, but they’ve become veritable epidemics since your use has become so accepted and widespread over … Read More