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Home: Current Issues: Sexuality: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Sexuality: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Modest Dress in the Modern World - Fr. William SaundersRecently I attended a wedding and the bride wore a gown with her shoulders bare and a good bit of her back and front exposed. When I was growing up, such dress would not be allowed in Church. Are there any norms for modest dress? Read more... Modesty Revisited - Wendy ShalitMany of the problems we hear about today - sexual harassment, date rape, young women who suffer from eating disorders and report feeling a lack of control over their bodies - are all connected, I believe, to our culture’s attack on modesty. Read more... Natural Family Planning (part 4) - Fr. William SaundersWhile condemning the use of contraception, the Church also recognizes that some couples face serious situations in their marriage and family which move them to postpone a pregnancy, even indefinitely. Read more... Natural Family Planning and Self-Mastery - JANET SMITHThe difference between natural family planning (NFP) and contraception is the topic of this clarifying essay by Janet Smith. Read more... New Research Shows Dangers of Condoms in HIV Prevention - Culture of Life FoundationAvailability of condoms statistically increase promiscuity and risk of contracting HIV according to medical experts who presented their findings on the "ABC" approach to the HIV/Pandemic in Washington, DC last week. Read more... NFP and the Telos of Sex - Father Tadeusz PacholczykMarried Catholics today often struggle to understand the moral difference between using contraceptives to avoid a pregnancy and using natural family planning (NFP). Read more... Nickels, Dimes and Family Size - Father Tadeusz PacholczykA few years ago, I spoke with a young man preparing to get married. Read more... Now for Some Good News - Frederica Mathewes-GreenIdeas don’t only have consequences, they have companions. For thirty years a ragtag trio has been running across the cultural landscape, linked like escapees from a chain gang and causing similar havoc: “sexual liberation,” “economic independence,” and “reproductive choice.” Even as the bad news is that these notions rose and flourished together, the good news is that hints of their common fall are becoming discernible. Read more... Obama devolves - Robert R. ReillyThe President has twisted immutable truths in the Constitution and Christianity into their opposites. Read more... Of Human Life: A pastoral letter on the truth and meaning of married love - RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES J. CHAPUTThirty years ago Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical letter Humanae Vitae, which reaffirmed the Church’s constant teaching on the regulation of births. It is certainly the most misunderstood papal intervention of this century. Read more... Of morals and medicine - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIn the midst of Stephen Lewis lauding Bill Clinton praising Bill Gates congratulating Bill Clinton paying tribute to Stephen Lewis, it’s hard to know what to make of the AIDS mega-conference now in Toronto. Read more... Old Profession, New Toleration - Roger ScrutonThe state of prostitution, and the harm it causes. Read more... On Being a Man - and a Woman - Deacon Douglas McManamanWhat does it mean to be a man? And what can we say to our female students about what it really means to be a woman? I offer a few thoughts. Read more... On Romance - Mark SheaI've been watching old Jimmy Stewart movies again, which always has a strong effect on me. Read more... One Man, One Woman - Robert P. GeorgeThe case for preserving the definition of marriage. Read more... Open season on Benedict - Michael CorenThe attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church following the Pope’s comments about the dangers of condom use in Africa in the attempt to prevent AIDS have been an extraordinary lesson in applied ignorance and the survival of prejudice. Read more... Opposition to Gay Marriage is Not Discrimination - Rabbi Aryeh SperoThe claim being made by advocates of gay marriage is that the ban of gay marriage is simply about prejudice. They are wrong. Read more... Origin and Healing of Homosexual Attractions and Behaviors - RICHARD FITZGIBBONSIn my clinical experience over the past twenty years I have witnessed the resolution of the emotional pain which caused homosexual temptations and behavior in several hundred males and females. Read more... Out of the Closet and into Chastity - David MorrisonMy pilgrimage from being a homosexual-rights activist to living life as a chaste Catholic began in earnest when I read the writings of a modern-day Protestant martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Read more... Oversexed, underloved - Father Raymond J. de SouzaTo great popular culture fanfare, the Sex and the City movie opens tomorrow. I don't expect that I shall see it, so I thought I might offer a comment beforehand. Read more... Pick Your Nose, Not Your Gender - Charles ColsonWell, it may finally be time to send for the guys with the white coats to wrap me up and cart me off. Read more... Polluting the Waters - Anthony EsolenThe Nice Fornicators, as far as it lies in them to do so, bring about a culture of hedonism, which is by its nature antithetical to something as self-sacrificing as marriage. Read more... Pope Benedict among Americans - Russell ShawHas the Catholic Church in the United States really done enough about the scandal of child sex abuse by priests? Read more... Pope Was Right to Challenge the Cult of the Condom - Colleen Carroll CampbellPope Benedict XVI made his comments on condoms in Africa more than a week ago, but the outrage they sparked shows no sign of abating. Read more... Pornography - Jason EvertQ. What's wrong with looking at pornography? It's not like you are getting a girl pregnant or spreading STDs. A. The problem with using porn is that it emasculates men, degrades women, destroys marriages, and offends the Lord. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [>>] Related Categories:
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