The history of HV, sex, and porn on Καθολικός διάκονος

Here is a pretty comprehensive overview of matters sexual on my humble blog. I do not intend to become a one trick pony, or a one note song on this matter, but it seems to me to be at the heart of so much that is misunderstood. The separation of sex from procreation, accomplished via contraception, is the root issue. It is almost as fundamental an error as the divorce between faith and reason. In fact, our contraceptive mindset flows from this divorce, which is precisely why the church's teaching on sexuality is considered archaic and retrograde. Stated perhaps far too simplistically, faith and reason split as a result of the Protestant schism, with Luther's turn to the subject on matters of faith, a rupture that was only widened by the Enlightenment.

HV:
The Good News

In defense of marriage

John Paul I on "this most delicate matter"

Marriage and the Gift of Life: Some Diaconal Observations

From Vive l'Evangile- "I believe that children are our future" and so does the Pope

Sex and porn:

WYD- The Pope speaks to us quite directly

The evil dynamic of lust: the story of Amnon, Son of David

Life as a dirty joke: one post-feminist perspective

The cinema on sex

Baise Moi- literally, pardon my French

Re-paganization

Urgently needed:The development of a healthy understanding of sexuality

. . . "lust isolates, while love unites" Archbishop George Niederauer's Keynote Address to the Lighted Candle Society

The virtue of chastity

Friday: A Shepherd Calls His Flock to Repentance on the Threshold of Advent

Observing the gap through the prism of sexuality