Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 192 : What Young People Could Most Profit From Hearing About Marriage

The commitments we make and faithfully fulfill are a source of stability and strength.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2021Marriage, Parenting, Premarital Sex

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 145: Considering the Options for Infertile Couples

It can be helpful to keep in mind a particular “rule of thumb” for determining whether a procedure is morally acceptable: treatments that assist the marital act are permissible, while those that replace, or substitute for, the marital act raise serious moral objections.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2017Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, Artificial Insemination, Intrauterine Insemination, Marriage, Natural Family Planning (NFP), Pregnancy Complications

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 110: Is Artificial Insemination Wrong Even Among Married Couples?

The pregnancy itself would be brought about by a new and different set of causes, whereby the mechanical actions of a technician would substitute for, and thus violate, the intimate and exclusive bond of the marital act.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2014Artificial Insemination, Intrauterine Insemination, Marriage

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 106: A Path of Renewal for the Catholic Sterilized Couple

Even though a reversal may not be feasible or obligatory, the repentant couple may nonetheless become aware of the need to order their sexual activity and appetites in the face of their original sterilization decision and its extended consequences.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationApril 30, 2014Birth Control and Contraception, Sterilization, Marriage

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

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