Catholic hospitals may never condone or participate in... the range of practices coming under the heading of “gender transition.” This is especially important when these involve offering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, "top surgeries" and "bottom surgeries” to children and young people.
Read MoreSex touches us at a deeper level than other activities, binding us to another. It speaks a language not of autonomy, but of communion and enduring self-gift.
Read MoreWhen young women immodestly display their feminine attributes and participate in pornography, they end up objectifying themselves, trivializing their sexuality, and harming their interpersonal relationships.
Read More...the solution should never be direct sterilization but tailored care that addresses their specific mental health situation...
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Sex touches us at a deeper level than other activities, binding us to another. It speaks a language not of autonomy, but of communion and enduring self-gift.
Read MoreThe careful hijacking of language by purveyors of wrongdoing is a widely-deployed tactic in the battle for the soul of every culture.
Read MoreMothers and fathers may have never discussed the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy to let their children know ahead of time that, even if they act contrary to their advice and conceive a child, they will still be there for them.
Read MoreYet the old adage that no man is an island rings perennially true. Grave harms to others, in fact, follow in the wake of the radical personal decision to ‘switch genders.
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 MoreWhen it comes to ‘sex in the moment,’ consent is touted as key...
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 Church’s ageless but countercultural teaching on contraception respects and uplifts women. It supports them in an authentic feminism that esteems their fruitfulness in marriage not as a defect, but as a real gift.
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 MoreSex, of course, has a certain power all its own, and both sides may be tempted to play with it in ways that are potentially damaging, all the more so when they decide to cohabit.
Read More...the home setting needs to differ from the outside world, serving as an oasis and a protected environment for children.
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 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 More…no matter what our level of sophistication may be, we have all received the gift of conscience, and the gift of “good guilt” that is ordered to helping us confront ourselves and turn away from wrongdoing.
Read MoreIt warps and distorts the beautiful gift of human sexuality, so it no longer serves as an interpersonal force for bonding and building families, but instead devolves into an exploitative and isolating force in the lives of those who fall prey to it.
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