Guilt has gotten a lot of bad press recently. We live in an age where guilt is practically always something bad, something to get past with the help of a shrink.
Masturbation is a serious obstacle to integrating sexuality into the personality and to maintaining psychological health.
St. Augustine is famous for having prayed, "Lord, make me chaste, but not yet." Father Paul Check, the director of Courage, suggests that chastity, like justice and mercy, is indeed part of the Good News of Christ and to ignore it is self-defeating.
One thing that defenders of the sexual revolution will not understand is that, although the act of intercourse is private (or better be), everything else about sex is public.
What strikes me most powerfully about the defenders of the sexual revolution is their immovable abstraction.
There is much excitement today, especially among the young, about John Paul II's "theology of the body."
A new study finds that Catholic women are more receptive to the Church's teaching on contraception than had previously been reported.
There's more censorship and self-censorship about the legacy of the sexual revolution than about any other current issue out there.
Announcing the results of his long-term "evolution" on the subject last week, President Obama revived the debate over gay marriage. In the widespread discussion, however, there is one question that's rarely asked: How interested are gay couples in getting married?
