
Encouraging Men Along the ‘Road to Purity’
Recovering addict Dann Aungst helps people overcome sex addiction and live chastely.
Recovering addict Dann Aungst helps people overcome sex addiction and live chastely.
COMMENTARY: Her resistance was not just about her being violated; by her own words, she showed an awareness of and spiritual concern for her attacker’s spiritual welfare.
Kate Bryan and other young Catholic women offer practical guidance and insights.
Both women have been honored by the Church in defensum castitatis, “in the defense of chastity.”
COMMENTARY: Defining peace as the absence of war omits what peace is. Chastity is not simply one long “No.”
COMMENTARY: We’re living at a time in which probably no part of Catholic faith and life is as caricatured, contradicted, criticized, condemned, calumniated and contravened as Catholic teaching about chastity.
There are many biblical passages forbidding premarital and extramarital sex
“There is a connection between purity of heart, of body, and of faith.” [CCC 2518]
Let us resolve in 2020 to teach the truth of God and his creation to a world suffering from ignorance.
“Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young.” (CCC 2353)
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