celibacy

So your old roommate’s in seminary and your sister just made first vows, and you’re feeling a little guilty getting excited for your wedding. Marriage isn’t exactly a straightforward regimen toward holiness (you do get to have sex, after all)…

Recently, Piers Morgan interviewed Kirk Cameron, asking what he would tell his teenage son if the boy were to confess he was gay.
Morgan promptly volunteered his own response.  “I would say, ‘That’s great son. Just so long as you…

Did you know that the Catholic Church says it’s OK for a doctor to use a knife?
Seriously, it’s okay. A doctor, as long as he is doing it for health reasons and not intentionally hurting the patient, can use…

The Hijacked Icon

by James K. Fitzpatrick on September 29, 2011 · 2 comments

I don’t see the term “to be hoist with one’s own petard” used much these days, but I used to see it quite a bit a few decades back. It is another of those Shakespearean phrases that have woven themselves…

The Dynamics of Celibacy

by Fr. Thomas Euteneuer May 18, 2009

Some recent high-profile priest scandals have put celibacy back in the limelight as a topic for the pagan world to rage about, but rarely will you hear what the Catholic Church actually teaches about it. I hope that the following…

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