Today, Bishop Paul S. Loverde (Arlington, VA) published an important, wide-ranging pastoral letter titled “Bought With a Price: Every Man’s Duty to Protect Himself and His Family From a Pornographic Culture” (PDF). It’s available free at www.arlingtondiocese.org/purity and will soon be available in Kindle format. Although the document can be read online beginning today, it’s …
Today I have the great pleasure of interviewing Matt Fradd. Matt was born in Australia—hence the wicked accent which makes him sound 36% more intelligent—but now lives and works in San Diego, California for the well-known apostolate, Catholic Answers. As a Catholic apologist, Matt helps people discover the beauty and truth of Catholicism. His strongest …
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Parents have two main missions when it comes to pornography. To borrow a phrase from C.S. Lewis, they must cut down jungles and irrigate deserts. First, cutting down jungles. The main protection against pornography is defense. Parents must tear down gateways to pornography and prevent kids from encountering it in the first place. This includes …
From September 1979 through November 1984, Pope John Paul II gave a series of weekly talks devoted to human sexuality, a proper understanding of the body, and marriage. The wisdom he expressed—collectively called the “theology of the body”—not only echoed previous Church teaching on human sexuality, but also formed the backbone for modern, Catholic sexual …
I’ve talked before about the need for purity in a culture saturated with pornography. I consider pornography to be one of the greatest enemies of human dignity and a major foe of marriage. Besides the immorality of pornography, however, Matthew Warner suggests something I’ve never considered: the social capital sacrificed by pornography users. Noting that …
