In the midst of a worldwide sex abuse scandal, at the 2018 “Vatican Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment” there is an effort by some within the Catholic Church to include for
For years, since the beginning of the AIDS crisis, diverse voices have been calling for a radical remaking of “gay” male culture away from the swinging sex of the 1970s into a more domesticated phase
As with all sorts of obsessive compulsions and addictions, there is a constant descent into a numbing world of pervasive boredom and dissatisfaction. Saint John of the Cross understood this phenomenon as stemming from a
“St. Joseph takes us into his carpenter shop; and (as the sun glances through the open door) he teaches us not in words but in deeds that in the glorious drama of life in which
“Those who can cry out from the abyss are not in the very depths of the abyss. Their very cry lifts them up.” ~ St. Augustine When life becomes its darkest, when we succumb to
The UK-based FS Magazine, a gay men’s health and life periodical, surveyed over 1000 “gay” men in Britain and discovered that: “41% are in, or have previously experienced, an open relationship.” More findings - of
The vast majority of boys who “come out” as “gay” do so after many years of porn addition usually steaming back to their adolescence or even into their childhood; I started seriously looking at porn
In 1999, I took my last drive out of San Francisco as a “gay” man. After a particularly hard night of sex and partying, I was vomiting up blood and thought I was near death.
Today, the Church provides a badly needed context for the care of the human person when she refuses to consider the person as a “heterosexual” or a “homosexual” and insists that every person has a
“For 32 months, researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco tracked the health of over 600 people as they used Truvada daily to prevent the virus in a real-world setting. The average
In the first place, man, the image of God, was created “male and female” (Gen 1:27). Men and women are equal as persons and complementary as male and female. Sexuality is something that pertains to
When the Lord first Saved me from the sad and lonely world of homosexuality – I quickly realized that my problems, past, present and future, would go way beyond just the struggle for any enduring
St. Augustine said of anger: “It is better not to allow anger, however just and reasonable, to enter at all, than to admit it in ever so slight a degree; once admitted, it will not
During the 10-plus years I spent in the homosexual lifestyle, twice I became the “other man” in the midst of a so-called gay marriage. At the time, since same-sex marriage was not recognized in the
At the moment of Christ’s intervention in my life, I saw the beautiful countenance of Jesus in the Image of Divine Mercy; at the time, I had no idea the history or background of the
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom. – Leonardo da Vinci There are certain circumstances present in a young man’s early life that often contribute to a later homosexual state in adulthood; I labeled
As stated in a featured research article presented at Microbicides 2010, The International Conference on Microbicides: “In the United States alone, receptive anal intercourse is practiced in up to 90 percent of gay and other
St. Josemaria Escriva, the greatest 20th Century commentator on the joys and sorrows of the modern Christian, once said this: “Marriage is for the soldiers and not for the General Staff of Christ’s army.” What
(Left: Dolores Park, 2014.) On January 15, 2015, Pope Francis announced that he would canonize Fr. Junipero Serra: the humble Spanish Franciscan Friar who founded a series of Catholic missions along the California coastline during
Back in the 1980s, the gay political-power pushers and their accomplices in the US Government and the media endlessly proselytized that the use of condoms (specifically in conjunction with Nonoxynol-9 [N-9]: a spermicide that attacks
According to the CDC, gay men are 160X more likely to contract HIV than their heterosexual counterparts. Now, to those homosexual apologists who argue that monogamy and gay marriage is the answer: Marie-Elise Parent, an
“…in a lot of cases homosexual men don’t have a particularly good relationship with their parents, especially their father. Maybe their fathers had totally rejected them.” ~ Keith Haring* * Keith Haring died of AIDS
(Above: One of the many porn-plastered store fronts in the Castro.) Everything nowadays seems to be saturated in a new form of porn-chic: from Abercrombie and Fitch advertisements to Kim Kardashian and a daily slew
“By 1980, however, the movement had become a victim of its own success. Particularly in San Francisco, the taboos against homosexuality ebbed easily in the midst of the overall sexual revolution. The promise of freedom
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and
