Cultivating a chaste heart demands a deep prayer life, strong spiritual support, and good fellowship, not to mention frequent reception of the sacraments…
Read MoreRobust and rigorous research studies find very notable improvements both in the ability to resist homosexual behaviors and in their sense of sexual re-orientation.
Read MoreSTDs 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.
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreIntrinsically disordered acts, while always destructive to ourselves and to others, do not put us outside of the eventual reach of grace and mercy...
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreEven 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.
Read MoreMarriage, 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.
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA compassionate society seeks to help and assist orphaned children, but no reasonable society intentionally deprives those children of a mother or a father.
Read MoreEven 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.
Read MoreViagra 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.
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