Making Sense of Bioethics: Column #213 : Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and the Tragic Seduction of Our Daughters

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.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2023Human Sexuality, Sex Education, Gender Identity and Being Transgender, Bodily Enhancement-Mutilation

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 208 : Young Women Giving Themselves Away For Nothing

When young women immodestly display their feminine attributes and participate in pornography, they end up objectifying themselves, trivializing their sexuality, and harming their interpersonal relationships.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 31, 2023Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education, Pornography, Universal Morality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 195 : Sexual Atoms and Molecules

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.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationSeptember 30, 2021Informed Consent, Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 175: Christian Girls and Abortion

Mothers 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.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJanuary 30, 2020Abortion, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Premarital Sex, Sex Education, Cooperation in Evil

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 155: Consenting to Sex

When it comes to ‘sex in the moment,’ consent is touted as key...

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationMay 30, 2018Human Sexuality, Premarital Sex, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 150: The "Bitter Pill" of False Liberation

The 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.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationDecember 30, 2017Human Sexuality, Sex Education, Birth Control and Contraception, Premarital Sex

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 134: Talking to Kids About Porn & Human Sexuality

...the home setting needs to differ from the outside world, serving as an oasis and a protected environment for children.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationAugust 30, 2016Pornography, Parenting, Sex Education, Universal Morality, Human Sexuality

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 125: Parents and "Sex Ed"

Parents are in the unique position of being able to model for their children a healthy example of sexual integration, generosity, and self-mastery within marriage.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2015Sex Education, Parenting

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 101: Sex, Truth and the Illumination of Our Guilt

…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.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationNovember 30, 2013Human Sexuality, Sex Education, Conscience

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 025: Contraceptive Contradictions

... marital sexuality is all about loving someone totally and unreservedly, giving and receiving totally, and not holding back who we are for ourselves. It involves a unique language of total self-giving.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJuly 30, 2007Birth Control and Contraception, Human Sexuality, Sex Education

Making Sense of Bioethics: Column 012: Conundrum with Condoms

Indeed, true love is violated right at its core in marriage any time we choose to use condoms, even for ‘good reasons.’

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD—Director of EducationJune 30, 2006Birth Control and Contraception, Sex Education, Condoms, AIDS and HIV

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