Category Archives: theology of the body

Modesty Modesty can refer to self-restraint in every area of life. Saint Thomas Aquinas: “Augustine says (De Morib. Eccl. xxi): ‘In both Testaments the temperate man finds confirmation of the rule forbidding him to love the things of this life, … Continue reading →

[Sirach] {7:21} Do not choose to depart from a good and understanding wife, whom you have been allotted in the fear of the Lord. For the grace of her modesty is above gold. A wife should be modest even before … Continue reading →

Can a husband and wife morally use unnatural sexual acts as foreplay, if these acts lack climax, and are performed in the context of an act of natural marital relations open to life? No, certainly not. Unnatural sexual acts are … Continue reading →

I am now offering my booklet on Roman Catholic sexual ethics, as it applies to pornography, as a free 25 page booklet: Free Booklet: The Immorality of Pornography [PDF] a booklet of Roman Catholic moral theology This brief work examines … Continue reading →

There is no guarantee from God that each and every Pope in succession will be a conservative. Although some conservative Catholics speak as if Catholics with more liberal theological opinions are necessarily heretics or apostates, such is not the case. … Continue reading →

The German Bishops own a company that sells pornography: WELTBILD. A group of faithful Catholics in Germany have asked the Bishops to stop offering this offensive material for sale, but the Bishops refuse to do so. Their defense is twofold. … Continue reading →

Pope John Paul II: “Contraception is to be judged objectively so profoundly illicit that it can never, for any reason, be justified. To think, or to say, anything to the contrary is tantamount to saying that in human life there … Continue reading →