Catholic Answers About Sex, Gender, and Variations in the 21st Century

Where the world settles for passing pleasures, the Church calls us to live for an eternal Kingdom. Oftentimes, this call is difficult, and every person who resolves to follow Christ will have to bear a weighty cross. Those who struggle with gender confusion carry a particularly challenging cross that the world would rather ignore.

Sex in the News: How Can we Change the Headlines?

As long as it feels good and there’s consent, does it need any boundaries? Labels? Conventional standards? Please, that is so backwards. This is 2017, right?

But then, when people say and do things that are so obviously wrong and offensive, we’re shocked and offended.

Your Virginity is Not a Trophy

Our goodness rests in our identity as daughters of God. We are good because we are desired by God. We are good because we are loved by God. And He loves us, not because of anything we will ever do, but because we have been created by Him and He desires us.

Love Will Drive Out Shame

For me, shame is like a clawed hand strangling my heart, demanding a reason as to why I deserve to be set free.