“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 …
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Pride, guilt, and life unashamed
Explaining the Church’s teaching on same-sex desires in today’s world isn’t easy. We feel hesitation, embarrassment…shame. Living the Church’s teaching on same sex desires poses its own challenges. Internal confusion, hiding…shame. June’s Pride Month offers what may seem to be a …
Magisterial Teaching and Practical Experience: A Priest’s Reflection on Courage’s Generation of Pastoral Care (Video)
“Whenever the Church says ‘no’, she must also say ‘yes’. There must be a ‘yes’ because that is what the Gospel is, as St Paul reminds us: an outstretched hand of practical help that understands the tangle of the …
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 …
The Institution of Marriage – A First Look
This is the fourth of a series of articles outlining Pope St. John Paul II’s thought on human embodiment and sexuality. The preceding article may be found here.
‘The very “core” of choosing a person must be personal.’ Spousal love …
Precision of terms in the field hospital
During my tenure as a journalist in Rome, I had the opportunity to cover the 2014 and 2015 Synods on the Family, and one of the topics of discussion was the Catholic Church’s language surrounding certain pastoral matters, particularly …
Spousal Friendship
This is the third of a series of articles outlining Pope St. John Paul II’s thought on human embodiment and sexuality. The preceding article may be found here.
Love lives not only within the lovers—as two numerically and psychologically distinct …
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 …
Baptism and the self under siege
One of the most pressing issues we face today is a crisis of the self, which just happens to also be a crisis of being, time, faith, morality, family, society, culture, you name it––a crisis of everything, really. I …
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 …
