From Catholic for Choice, an excellent 45 minute film on Catholics and Sexual Morality. Watch it at http://catholicsforchoice.org/secrethistory.asp “The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics” features interviews with leading experts in the fields of theology, philosophy and ethics…
Sexual Ethics
Sr Margaret Farley Rebuked by CDF: Book Sales Set to Boom
Sr. Margaret Farley is a Mercy sister and prominent Catholic theologian, an ethicist at Yale University. In 2006, she published “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics “, an award – winning book on sexual ethics, which examines all the obvious elements of…
Churches and HIV – learning lessons from the USA
There’s an interesting new report from the USA discussing the failure of African-American Churches to deal with the high rates of HIV within the black population of the USA, and how this failure can be turned around by churches. How…
HIV Prevention Drugs Set to Sidestep Vatican’s Condoms Ban
Using HIV drugs to protect yourself from getting HIV is now on the horizon. This offers Catholics who do not have HIV, especially those in Africa, an effective alternative form of protection to using condoms which are banned by the…
Priest in gay porn primary school accident says goodbye
The Catholic priest who accidently showed 16 gay porn images to a group of 30 parents at a primary school in Northern Ireland is to leave the area. Father Martin McVeigh, the parish Priest of Pomeroy in County Tyrone, announced…
Sex and Catholics 4: More Weaknesses in Natural Law
Natural Law: Part 4 More Holes and Weaknesses in Natural Law and the future for sexual love Part 1 dealt with the Natural Law. Part 2 considered the male and female perspectives of Natural Law and the Church’s teachings on…
Sex and Catholics 3: Vatican II and Modern Specialists
Natural Law: Part 3 Vatican II and incorporating modern specialist expertise Part 1 dealt with the Natural Law. In Part 2 we considered the male and female perspectives of Natural Law and the Church’s teachings on sexual morality, and recent…
Sex and Catholics: the problems in Natural Law
Something called ‘Natural Law’ sets the ground rules for all Catholic teachings about sex. Natural Law means the only Catholic approved sex is vaginal intercourse that can lead to procreation, and only when it is between a married woman and…
Robinson: Hetero/Homo, Catholic Sexual Teaching Stands (Or Falls) Together
In his address to the New Ways Ministry Conference last week, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson dared to say on the record what no other has done before, but what an unknown number of other bishops are thinking or saying privately, many theologians…
Bishop urges change in all church teaching on sexual relationships
Sooner or later, it had to happen. Ordinary Catholics living in the real world have known it for decades, moral theologians know it, priests in Austria, Germany, Belgium and Ireland have been demanding it, and an unknown number of bishops…
