Fr. Loya of Catholic Exchange has a great article on how Lent can be helpful to our sex lives: Lent is characterized by three things: prayer, fasting and almsgiving (increased charity.) Perhaps the most striking of these three features is fasting. The practice of fasting is found in many of the grea...

Last week in my post "...we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms" , I employed a quote from Archbishop Rowan Williams' 1989 impassioned apologia for the morality of homosexual sex, written while he was still professing theology at Oxford University, The Body's Grace , in which he ar...

There is a great quote from artist Michelangelo that goes, “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.” This low aiming is precisely what we’re doing to our young people when we teach them “abstinenc...

WARNING: Graphic language Last year I wrote a lot about married sex and porn, especially about the toll it takes on the lives of those who make it. I also harshly critiqued a certain post-feminist approach to matters of sex. It almost goes without saying, that our Evangelical sisters and brothers, e...

After posting "How to Mess Up Your Job" I decided that I would do another "How To Mess Up" list and offer: How To Mess Up A Marriage Have Premarital Sex - This can be with your future spouse or not. Regardless, the statistics show that it means a much higher chance of a failed marriage. Cohabitate -...

St. Agnes was born in Rome during the beginning of the third century. She was brought up as a Christian and grew to be a very beautiful young woman. By the age of twelve, Agnes was already receiving suitors for her hand in marriage. And already by the age of twelve, Agnes had developed a deep spirit...

Q - I have asked numerous health professionals, several of which were Catholic, and the general opinion seems to be that birth control pills, when taken not for contraceptive use, can help alleviate debilitating symptoms of PMS, and have no proven risks of cancer or other major diseases. On the othe...

We can either dive into the depths of Christ - as Pope John Paul II suggests ("set out into the deep") or we can dive into the depths of our sick culture. Some choose Christ. Some choose not Christ. Tip O' The Hat to Mark....

We all know it has unfortunately become a truth in modern advertising - sex sells. Well, apparently so does sex with a virgin. A woman from San Diego is auctioning off her virginity and the price is approaching $4 million. She got the idea to do it because: she was persuaded to offer herself to the ...

I was recently alerted to the online presence of this hypnotically bad 1976 Sonny and Cher Christmas special, and this Cher-led Christmas medley really takes the cake. It's set in a Dickensian soundstage, and some maybe famous people show up to help her out. Her "Oh Holy Night"... man. It's like the...