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It has been over a decade since I first read Christopher West’s Good News About Sex and Marriage and then made it required reading for the RCIA program I coordinated.  I couldn’t help myself.  If there was one area in…

As St. Augustine wisely noted over 1,500 years ago, Christian society and secular society – which the saint termed the “city of God” and the “city of man” – are in constant conflict with one another. Perhaps nowhere is the…

Righteous Mom Anger

by Pam Stenzel on October 5, 2012 · 1 comment

Here we go again: adults who are too busy to be bothered teaching and modeling respect and integrity to their students decide it is better to just offer them “the morning after pill” at school, without the consent of parents!…

A new study just out from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, shows that girls as young as six are being conditioned by secular media to view themselves as sex objects. Yes, you read that right sex objects. At a time…

Asking Our Bishops to Raise the Stakes

by Anthony Esolen August 16, 2012

Recently I caught ten minutes of a ghastly television show called House.  It’s a medical drama whose scripts, filming, direction, and acting cover the spectrum from dour to grim.  The doctors were attempting to determine why an eighteen-year-old girl was…

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Sexual Brokenness

by John Stonestreet July 19, 2012

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Your Body: It’s God Versus the World

by Pam Stenzel February 29, 2012

We live in a society obsessed with sex. We cannot turn on our radios or televisions, head out to the movies or even pick up a newspaper without being confronted with sex.  In an age of too much information, does…

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The Same-Sex Marriage Debate in Australia and Elsewhere–What’s The Real Issue?

by Susan Moore February 6, 2012

Following the passage of the same-sex marriage bill in Queensland despite probable public opposition to it, and the widespread publicity given to the change in the Australian Labor Party policy on marriage, the task of arguing against same sex marriage…

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The Pornography Pandemic

by Patrick A. Trueman January 27, 2012

This week, Catholic Exchange is highlighting “The Pornography Problem.” Yesterday, we ran a review of “Out of the Darkness,” a documentary about “the adult industry.” Today, check out related pieces It’s Not Erotic Art, It’s Child Abuse,   No Such Thing…

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Rated R — for “Repulsive”

by William West January 27, 2012

This week, Catholic Exchange is highlighting “The Pornography Problem.” Yesterday, we ran a review of “Out of the Darkness,” a documentary about “the adult industry.” Today, check out related pieces It’s Not Erotic Art, It’s Child Abuse,   The Pornography Pandemic,…

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