Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 203: Homosexual Men and Chaste Friendships

Cultivating a chaste heart demands a deep prayer life, strong spiritual support, and good fellowship, not to mention frequent reception of the sacraments…

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 31, 2022Homosexuality and Gay Marriage

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 160: Sexual Orientation: Hope for Restoration and Healing with SOCE

Robust and rigorous research studies find very notable improvements both in the ability to resist homosexual behaviors and in their sense of sexual re-orientation.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2018Human Sexuality, Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 152: Sorting through "Solutions" to the HIV-AIDS Pandemic

STDs constitute a serious danger in an age where sexual behaviors are becoming ever more indiscriminate. STD outbreaks and pandemics often have their origins in unchaste behaviors and morally disordered forms of sexuality.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationFebruary 28, 2018Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, AIDS and HIV

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 147: Sex in Accord with Reason

The manner in which the [sexual] act takes place and the details surrounding it are essential to determining whether the act occurs in an authentically human way...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2017Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Sex Education, Masturbation, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 141: I'm Not "Intrinsically Disordered!"

Intrinsically disordered acts, while always destructive to ourselves and to others, do not put us outside of the eventual reach of grace and mercy...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2017Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 124: The Mystery of Male-Female Complementarity

The beauty and meaning of every sexual encounter in marriage, then, is rooted not only in faithful and exclusive love, but also in the radical complementarity of spouses manifested in the abiding mystery of their mutual procreativity.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2015Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Marriage, Natural Law, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 123: Jailed for Defending Marriage

Even so, various commentators have tried to insist that Ms. Davis was elected to serve as a government official, and should carry out the provisions of the law even if she might not agree with them. But this argument is flawed on at least four counts.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2015Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Marriage, Imposing Our Beliefs, Conscience and Civil Liberties

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 112: "Redefining" Marriage

Marriage, in fact, is the “primordial first institution,” flowing out of the intimate and creative union of male and female. It… is essentially ordered towards creating and caring for the future in the form of the next generation.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationOctober 30, 2014Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Marriage

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 105: Discrimination and Human Genital Sexuality

It remains the better part of wisdom to discriminate, in the moral sense of the term, between disordered uses of human sexuality and the ordered engagement of human sexuality within marriage.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2014Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Gender Identity and Being Transgender

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 096: Perversions and Purposes in Human Sexuality

The deep-seated sex instinct moves men and women to embrace great sacrifices, such as are required in marriage and procreation, for the fulfillment of this remarkable human drive.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2013Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality, Masturbation, Marriage, Premarital Sex

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 093: Facing the Downstream Effects of Same-Sex Parenting

A compassionate society seeks to help and assist orphaned children, but no reasonable society intentionally deprives those children of a mother or a father.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMarch 30, 2013Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Parenting, Same Sex Parenting, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 073: “Gay Genes,” Sexual Attractions, and the Call to Chastity

Even if we have genes that predispose us towards certain behaviors, we still have a space of freedom within ourselves, and do not have to engage in those behaviors. Our genes may impel us strongly in certain behavioral directions, but they can't compel us.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2011Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Human Sexuality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 038: Sex and Little Pills: Viagra and Birth Control

Viagra and birth control serve two very different purposes, and each one has its own unique ethical considerations. Viagra, at a minimum, treats an actual dysfunction, while birth control does not. In fact, one might say that Viagra fixes a broken system, while birth control breaks a perfectly working system.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2008Birth Control and Contraception, Homosexuality and Gay Marriage, Viagra

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