Say ‘Yes’ To Sex

Assamite let me listen to a song today. It’s a rap song, written by a priest Father Stan Fortuna, CPF. It’s a song about sex. That was enough for me to raise my eyebrows at. I burst out into spontaneous laughter especially when I heard the words “Humanae Vitae” and “Gaudium et Spes” in the [...]

There’s no such thing as a weak will

While “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” by Father John Harvey, OSFS. In it, there is a section on St. Augustine’s confessions regarding his struggle for chastity.
According to St. Augustine, there’s no such thing as a “strong will” or “weak will”, only a united or divided will. He speaks of two kinds of inner battles - [...]

Are you a church-fan?

When I first read Father David Garcia’s article on The Difference Between A Church-fan And Belonging To The Church“, it hit me like a sledgehammer. It was very true. How often had I been a church-fan rather than a member of the church? In so many issues, I felt blows and triumphs to the church… [...]

Book Review: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

I’ve just finished a most excellent book titled “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” written by Father John Harvey, OSFS, the priest who started Courage - the only Catholic ministry dedicated to persons with same-sex attraction that completely embraces the Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
I bought this book on the third session of “A Christian Response To [...]

God made man in the image of himself… male and female he created them

In the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, God made man in the image of himself… male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and conquer it.” (Gen 1:27) That’s the very first commandment that God gives to man.
In the second [...]

The New Marriage-Wrecker

Internet Pornography Burrows Deeper Into Culture
By Father John Flynn, LC
ROME, FEB. 24, 2008 (Zenit.org).- In Lent we should think of fasting not only in relation to food and drink, but also from images, recommended Benedict XVI. The Pope’s advice came during a question-and-answer session with Rome’s clergy, held Feb. [...]

Let me have just this one vice!

In Spider-Man: House of M, a five-issue comic book limited series that ran throughout Marvel Comics’ House of M crossover in 2005, Spider-Man is famous for being an actor, superhero, wrestler, and businessman. The House of M is an alternate reality where Homo superior, instead of Homo sapiens, rule [...]

“One who is unable to live without sex, in the end, becomes a slave”

I picked up the following story from LifeSiteNews.com today:

“One who is unable to live without sex, in the end, becomes a slave”: Italian Soccer Superstar
TURIN, January 30, 2008 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview for the Italian magazine Sportsweek, a star defender from Turin, Italy’s Juventus soccer club, Nicola Legrottaglie, revealed that [...]

Masturbation - Just a normal healthy release of sexual energy?

I chanced across this today in this website I found:
“Isn’t masturbation just a normal, healthy release of sexual energy and biological buildup?”
 No. Aside from the spiritual reasons we’ve cited on our masturbation page, there are some biological reasons for not masturbating.  Masturbation causes our bodies to become sexually responsive [...]

Wednesday, October 24 - Temperance

Romans 6:12-14
You must not let sin reign in your mortal bodies or command your obedience to bodily passions, you must not let any part of your body turn into an unholy weapon fighting on the side of sin; you should, instead, offer yourselves to God, and consider yourselves dead men brought [...]