There are facts and truths that "sexual libertarians" don't want society or public opinion to know, that even they don't want to know. To sum up those facts - accumulated in different human cultures and societies - we don't need sex to live a full life and be content. To define one's identity on the basis of our sexuality alone is to reduce our human value and dignity. I am a lot more than just my genitalia, and so are you. G.S.
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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best human efforts to make sense of our lives - and of our human sexuality in particular - also including the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium. The Church has been accumulating much valuable wisdom granted her by Almighty God since her foundation at Pentecost. In this way, wherever there is darkness in our human understanding, it will serve to highlight the bright and radiant truth, which is Jesus Christ: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also." John's Gospel 14:6-7
Father Gilles Surprenant, priest & poustinik
In each case, please go to the link for the complete article.
👉 How art and technology are clearing up 'miscontraceptions' on women’s fertility
By Adelaide Mena Washington D.C., Mar 6, 2015
👉 Are we less free than a 1950s housewife? A look at contraception
By Ann Schneible - Rome, Italy - Sep 16, 2016 What started as a means to liberate women seems to have taken an ironic twist.... little more a decade into the 21st century, the sexual exploitation of women and girls is at an all-time high, and the dream of woman's liberation – as promised by contraception – seems to be falling far short of the reality.
👉 San Jose Articles
We — human rights lawyers and advocates, scholars, elected officials, diplomats, and medical and international policy experts — hereby affirm these Articles. San Jose, Costa Rica March 25, 2011
👉 It's About the Human Nature: What's In the Fridge?
Jerome Lejeune's 1989 Expert Court Testimony regarding the nature of human embryos
👉 Yes, unborn babies can feel pain at 20 weeks, doctors testify
By Matt Hadro - Washington - Mar 16, 2016
👉 Natural Family Planning (NFP) simplified
by observing ovulation after the fact rather than trying to predict it For the text below in downloadable and printable format (pdf), click here: 04_28_2020_pm_nfp_text_only.pdf
👉 NFP Is Not Always “Marriage-Building”
by Audrey Pollnow 8.1.16 NFP can be a healthy exercise in asceticism, particularly for people who care too much about sexual gratification. But there are couples who have the opposite problem: They are disinclined to seek sex, either because they are not getting along, or because one of them is unusually indifferent to sex. When we recommend an ascetic discipline to help someone grow in virtue, we need to tailor our recommendation to the vice the person actually has. As Aristotle points out, most virtues have two associated vices: one involving an excess and the other involving a deficiency.
👉 The female nuclear physicist who created a fertility app
Stockholm, Sweden, Mar 20, 2018 Meet Elina Berglund: a nuclear physicist who will be known as the woman who developed the first natural cycle fertility app to have been internationally certified as an effective means of avoiding pregnancy.
👉 Twins conversation in the womb Posted on December 7, 2012
👉 Boy and Girl - Copyright © Pablo J.Luis Molinero, 1980.
👉 Y a-t-il une vie après la naissance? Publié 14th June 2011 par Fiodor
👉 Prayer for the Baptism of the Unborn − Aborted and Miscarried Babies 24/07/2014
PROMOTION OF LIFE
👉 Danes taught ‘how you have children’
After years of teaching kids how to use contraceptives, Sex and Society, the country’s biggest provider of sex education materials for schools, has changed its curriculum to encourage having babies under the headline: “This is how you have children!”
👉 5 ways Europe is trying to convince its citizens to make more babies
Much has been written about Europe's debt and financial crises. This, however, is not the only challenge the continent faces: Some European countries are rapidly aging, as this map shows. All over the continent, potential parents have shown reluctance to have more babies. Hence, governments and advocacy groups are becoming increasingly creative about getting their citizens to make babies.
👉 Record-breaking 40 Days for Life campaign sees monumental results
By Maggie Maslak Dallas, Texas, Nov 6, 2015 - After its 2015 fall campaign of prayer and fasting outside hundreds of abortion clinics around the world, the pro-life advocacy group 40 Days for Life says its efforts have been met with record-breaking results. “We had 307 cities participate in the 40 Days for Life campaign in the United States and around the world, and we have really seen 40 Days for Life go into any environment and get the same result: moms choosing life at the very last minute.”
👉 Madrid Declaration for Understanding, Respect, and Freedom
Madrid, February 23, 2018 The so-called “gender perspective” was first introduced on the international agenda to guarantee equality of opportunity and equality of rights between men and women. Today, it has become an authentic “gender ideology”, with objectives that are dangerous for democracy. Gender ideology has been used violently, and it has turned what could be just into a lie.
👉 My Debate with a Pro-Abortion Philosopher at Stanford
Trent Horn - May 03, 2017 After the debate, Boonin thanked me for participating and hoped we could engage the subject again at a future venue. I found him to be very courteous and insightful, which made for an enjoyable evening. Although we profoundly disagreed about a contentious issue, we showed that one could still have civil disagreement in such circumstances.
👉 Persuasive Pro-Life - Trent Horn
How to Talk About Our Culture’s Toughest Issue
👉 Shepherds on the Sidewalk - KofC - Columbia Jan 2011 pages 26-27
The 40 Days for Life campaign is gaining momentum and saving lives - by Carolee McGrath
👉 Mother Teresa stuns Clinton
On Feb. 3, 1994 Mother Teresa spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.
Before an audience of 3,000, which included President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore, Mother Teresa called for an end to abortion, “the greatest destroyer of peace today.” A disconcerted Clinton did not take part in the standing ovation which followed the speech. Observers called it the most embarrassing moment of the Clinton administration.
👉 Can we end the need for abortion? One organization aims to find out
Denver, Colo., Feb 9, 2017 Women's healthcare is reaching a new dawn in the state of Colorado, courtesy of a new Catholic Charities initiative whose goal is to eliminate abortion from the definition of women's healthcare. The new initiative, called Marisol Health, hopes to empower women by offering a holistic option for healthcare, which includes aid with housing and every spectrum of human services.
PROTECTION OF THE VULNERABLE
👉 For a responsible pastoral ministry
Archbishop Christian Lépine - June 22, 2016
👉 DIOCESAN POLICY OF RESPONSIBLE PASTORAL MINISTRY
MONTREAL A Responsible Pastoral Ministry is every pastoral action committed to never use any type of abuse: sexual, emotional, financial or physical against any minor or vulnerable person in order to protect Dignity and Integrity of all people because they are « in the image of God ».
👉 Implementation of Responsible Pastoral Ministry
Archbishop Christian Lépine has just validated the pilot project of Responsible Pastoral Ministry and announces the beginning of its general implementation in the whole Archdiocese of Montreal.
👉 Protecting Minors from Sexual Abuse - CCCB
A Call to the Catholic Faithful in Canada for Healing, Reconciliation, and Transformation
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