As a headmaster, Kevin Stuart often wondered when the gender identity issue would touch his school community, and when it did, if he could handle the situation with truth and charity.
Now, as director of the Nesti Center for Faith and Culture at
To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, the University of St. Thomas in Houston is announcing a new sexuality and gender studies program rooted in the Catholic understanding of the human person. “That’s what this program is all about: to give
"Love Means More," a new teaching initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has a statement of purpose, a website and a promise to keep building the website to provide answers on a wide variety of questions about Catholic teaching on
Two sexual abuse survivors told OSV News they are deeply troubled by a recently resurfaced book on mysticism written several years ago by the Vatican's doctrinal head that includes graphic descriptions of sexuality.
"La pasión mística: espiritualidad y sensualidad" ("Mystical Passion: Spirituality and
A recently resurfaced book by the Vatican's doctrinal head is "deeply flawed" in its portrayal of mystical union with God, a theological expert told OSV News.
"La pasión mística: espiritualidad y sensualidad" ("Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality") -- written in 1998 by then-Father
Remember Humpty-Dumpty? He turns up in Lewis Carroll’s fantasy “Through the Looking Glass” and makes this famous assertion: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." Thoughts of this come up
The sexual and the spiritual do not exist exclusive to each other but will frequently commingle, particularly within the experience of mystical contemplation. Further, it is obvious that one can communicate that reality very well without going into biological or gynecological descriptiveness
The Vatican's doctrine chief said the sometimes-graphic book on sexuality and spirituality that he published 25 years ago is "a book of my youth that I certainly would not write now."
In comments to church news websites Crux and InfoVaticana Jan. 8, Cardinal
At a time in our culture when the truth about sexuality and gender can be confusing and unclear, clarity on these issues is priceless. The local church in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend received such refreshing clarity from its shepherd, Bishop
In the ongoing cultural debate surrounding gender, discussions often reference the existence of intersex individuals as a response to claims rooted in religion or science asserting that humans are inherently male or female. While it is undeniably true that intersex people exist,