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By Robert McNamara / October 6, 2020
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Marriage: Covenantal and Graced Love

This is the eleventh of a series of posts outlining St. John Paul II\'s thought on embodiment and sexuality. To read the preceding article, please click here. In ‘Part One’ of the Theology of the Body, St. John Paul II ...

By Father Philip Bochanski / February 26, 2019
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Closet, cage, or Cross? A response to the New York Times

It has been one of the great privileges of my priesthood to work with the members of the Courage apostolate, faithful Catholics who experience same-sex attractions and have decided to live chaste lives. I have encountered an unexpected joy ...

By Robert McNamara / January 15, 2019
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The Virginal Meaning of the Body

This is the ninth of a series of posts outlining St. John Paul II’s thought on embodiment and sexuality. to read the preceding article, please click here. Having outlined the meaning of the human body and sexuality from ‘the beginning’ ...

By Robert McNamara / September 19, 2018
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Alienation From Love

The seventh article of a series outlining St. John Paul II’s thought on human embodiment and sexuality. to read the preceding article, please click here. After delving into the original experience of our first parents as recounted by Genesis, and ...

By Anna Carter / July 24, 2018
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Break open the filing cabinet: Chastity & Integration

“You seem very…managed.” I sat across from a priest on a retreat. He had just heard me describe a few elements of my relational history. This was his response. “I mean, it’s sort of like a filing cabinet,” he ...

By Robert McNamara / June 25, 2018
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“In the Beginning”

Having already outlined Pope St. John Paul’s thought on the human person and love as it is found in Love and Responsibility, the fifth through twelfth articles in our series are devoted to a second text, Man and Woman ...

By Fr. Philip Bochanski / June 4, 2018
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Featured video: Does God Make a Person Gay?

Does God create a person with a homosexual inclination? What would be the logical implications if some persons were created gay, while others not? Watch as Courage International\'s executive director, Father Philip Bochanski, discusses why this idea is incompatible with ...

By Anna Carter / April 22, 2018
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Ministering to millennials

Born in the late 80’s, I came to youth ministry in the age of worship song hand motions and purity cards. The gay rights debate raged far and away from my Midwestern town of origin…or least severely under the ...

By Michael K. Horne, Psy.D. / April 9, 2018
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Guilt vs. shame in an age of sexual indulgence

One of the greatest challenges facing persons who experience same-sex attraction is the conflict between what the secular world tells us will bring us happiness, and our interior feelings. The world sends out messages that we should act upon ...

By Anna Carter / January 21, 2018
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Original Personhood: Identity & Theology of the Body

This week I changed login information for one of my many online applications. In one section, I could select a new update. Male. Female. I prefer not to say. How do you identify? “Identity politics” has gotten a lot of play across the red-blue ...

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