In March 2022, the Nordic Bishops’ Conference sent an open letter to the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg. The Nordic bishops began by mentioning their historic debt of gratitude to the German Church: In Norway, for instance, the nineteenth-century . . . . Continue Reading »
Bishop Peter J. Elliott joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Sexual Revolution: History, Ideology, Power. Continue Reading »
The Catholic Church teaches that pride is the deadliest of the deadly sins, so it is something to be avoided, along with lust, not celebrated. Continue Reading »
David J. Ayers joins the podcast to discuss his new book, After the Revolution: Sex and the Single Evangelical. Continue Reading »
The “Respect for Marriage Act,” recently passed in both Houses of Congress, is celebrated as an advancement in equality, liberty, and respect. But equality and liberty for whom? Respect for what? Continue Reading »
The more we embrace vulgarity and the breaking of taboos as liberating, the more predators will flourish. Continue Reading »
Abiding by moral rules, especially when they are explained meaningfully and mercifully, gives teenagers swimming in a sea of relativism and nihilism a “moral vocabulary.” Sympathy isn’t enough. People need norms. Continue Reading »
The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: The crime of the modern sexual regime is that it robs Eros of its meaning and love of its grandeur. It’s a lie. It’s a theft. It makes us small and ignoble.
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If you ride New York City’s subways, you will see public service advertisements blazoned above you. Some come from “NYC Condom,” a service of the New York City Health Department, some from other groups (like the BACCHUS Initiatives of the National Association of Student Personnel . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans’ public and private lives are on a collision course. Our social system—the one we publicly engage daily—still unwittingly encourages and rewards chaste behavior (though perhaps not speech). Privately, our lives bespeak an emerging chaos, regardless of what we personally hold to be good or true or ideal. In other words, American life is becoming sexually bipolar. Continue Reading »
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