If you don't know what I'm talking about, read this. If you do, click through to see what these suckers look like out of the box. Scrumptious! Marketed as McCondoms (cute) you can get two for $3.25. Please do not buy these for me. I am considering giving up both sex and whiskey for Le...

  A reader alerted us to a sex scandal we missed out on: a Thai monk who resigned from his monastery after getting caught having sex, after a wild teen sex and booze extravaganza at his place. Even weirder: it's a gay Thai monk sex scandal... and you won't want to miss these comments in...

The NYT reports that most high school kids these days are virgins. Today, fewer than half of all high school students have had sex: 47.8 percent as of 2007, according to the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, down from 54.1 percent in 1991. A less recent report suggests that teenagers are also wai...

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This week’s TOB (Theology of the Body) Tuesday topic was inspired by the recent ordination of a good friend of mine to the ministry of the priesthood. He is now Father Angelo Bartulica serving in the diocese of Kansas City/St. Joseph. It was a beautiful ordination celebrated by the always wond...

Of course, the previous post notwithstanding, my relationship to the Church is not all gladness and light. (A lot of my friends, both churched and un-churched are more than a little puzzled about how and why I remain Catholic). One of the tragedies of contemporary Catholicism is the passion and tale...

JESUS AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN by Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1308-11. Tempera on wood panel. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain CLERICAL CELIBACY · Clerical Celibacy: The voluntary renunciation of sexual pleasure and marriage for the sake of the Kingdom of God. This is not a dogma of the Churc...

"... to make comprehension that those couples always full of trouble. And in some cases there is suicide, murder cases." The Dalai Lama -- not using a translator but speaking in English -- explains why celibacy is the best way of life: "We miss something, but at the same time, compare whole life, it...

I discussed this issue last year when it showed up last year on  another writer's blog.  It came up again here recently so I think my statement from last year is still spot on!  The question was asked:  If your intended wanted to wait until you were married to have sex, would you? If everything...

It was the apology that Sydney (and its media) eagerly waited for, and the agitation increased as the days passed by during this week, or World Youth Day Week. Sexual abuse has made headlines around the world, and it seems that there are ways to go in regard to sorting the issues out but an apology ...