Having written an entire chapter on dissent from Humanae vitae in the U. S., it was heartening to read that nearly 50 years after this “prophetic” papal document, more than 500 Catholic scholars with doctoral degrees in theology, medicine, law and other fields have recently signed a document in support of Catholic teaching, titled “ Affirmation of the Catholic Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality.”  Humanae vitae speaks against the distorted view of human sexuality and intimate relationships that many in the modern world endorse. The document was prophetic in predicting some of the evils that would result from widespread use of contraception. Dissent from Humanae vitae centers around the claim there are “no grounds” for Catholic teaching against contraception, questioning the idea that openness to procreation is inherent to the significance of sexual intercourse, and that the choice to use contraceptives for either family planning or prophylactic purposes can...

In my The Smoke of Satan in the Temple of God , I cited Third Wave feminist author Naomi Wolf, who came to realize that those feminists who had opposed pornography were right: The whole world, post-Internet, did become pornographized. Young men and women are indeed being taught what sex is, how it looks, what its etiquette and expectations are, by pornographic training—and this is having a huge effect on how they interact. But the effect is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as “porn-worthy.” Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get, let alone hold, their attention…. Today, real naked women are just bad porn. Further evidcence that Paul VI was a visionary in Humane Vitae: SEX BEFORE KISSING: HOW 15-YEAR-OLD GIRLS ARE DEALING WITH PORN...

I have debated many who say that Jesus did not care about sexual sins-- just sins of omission leading to social injustice. These progressives would even deny that ALL of the   sins which cry out to heaven for vengeance , were serious as far as the Savior was concerned! Here is a detailed examination of why they are wrong.

LOVE MACHINE   Humans could become addicted to mind-blowing romps with SEX ROBOTS, according to expert Interested in this whole raunchy robot thing? Approach with caution, is the warning BY HANNAH FERRETT 4th September 2016, 10:53 am We’ve already reported on claims that  teenagers could soon be losing their virginity to the mechanical love machines , with scientists also said to be working on  robot sex brothel to cut the risk of STIs . GETTY IMAGES - FILMMAGIC This could be the future But now comes the warning – according to a expert in the field, we’ll need to be careful we don’t get addicted to artificial intelligence love making. Joel Snell is an American Research Fellow from Kirkwood College, and he’s told  the Daily Star  there’s a real risk linked to the robots. That’s because they’ll offer great sex at any time of the day and night. GETTY IMAGES We’ve been warned to be careful how we use sex robots There’...

I often have to explain to colleagues that the Bible is not the only source for Christian revelation, but to it must also be added Sacred Tradition and magisterial teaching, which means that Jesus continues to teach and guide His Church through the Pope and the bishops in union with him. AS an example, recall Our Lord's inspiration of Blessed Pope Paul VI to prohibit contraception in Humanae Vitae, after the Pope initiated a commission to investigate whether or not the traditional teaching could be developed to allow for the regulation of births.  Our first Pope is one of the few Apostles whose words and actions  are displayed throughout the Gospel narratives, which, if one is familiar with them, reminds one that the rock on which the Church is built is a rock precisely because Peter is divinely supported, as are his successors.  The papacy is an office established, supported...

A Suicide in Brooklyn Raises Questions about Parochial Education GERARD T. MUNDY The Wednesday before last,  the liturgical  Ordo exsequiarum  (Order of Christian Funerals)  was celebrated  in Staten Island, New York for a Brooklyn Catholic school boy who took  his own  life last month. Thirteen-year-old Daniel Fitzpatrick was laid to his earthly rest just weeks shy of beginning what would have been this month the start of a new academic year. For Fitzpatrick, the impending academic year was to begin at a new school, separated from the peers who he writes tormented him and removed from the teachers and administration who he says ignored the abuse and his incessant pleas for help. Following the tragedy, the question for the Church is: Are children in Catholic education being educated properly in the true faith? In a letter that the family says he wrote last month, Fitzpatrick,  reported to be  a boy scout and an altar boy at the S...

“[O]ften men, deceived by the Evil One, have become vain in their reasonings and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, serving the creature rather than the Creator. […]By the proclamation of the Gospel… [the Church] gives [non-Christians]the dispositions necessary for baptism, snatches them from the slavery of error and of idols and incorporates them in Christ…” - Lumen gentium, 16-17. In the United States, the 1960s marked the beginning of a breakdown in sexual mores and a rise in family disruption, joined with a culture of dissent as many tried to rationalize deviations from traditional morality. We witnessed a massive social experiment linked to genuine progress for which the Church was not prepared — discrimination against African-Americans and women was coming to an end, and Catholics were ever-increasingly undergoing assimilation into contemporary culture. As a result, Catholics began placing their spiritual lives in one compartment and their daily activities in the...