I remember sitting on the floor of my college dorm with a group of young women my freshman year when someone mentioned they had learned how to manage their...
Sex and sexuality
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on sex and sexuality—faith-based reflections, guidance, and insights on relationships, intimacy, and moral teaching.
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube For Catholics seeking accurate information about the church’s teachings on sex ethics...
The contemporary crisis of masculinity is often framed in reactionary terms—“men are lost,” “men are under attack,” “bring back real men.” Within Catholic...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify This episode of Just Politics sounds a little different—and that’s the point. Rather than diving into our usual policy...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirby Hoberg noticed that her pastor began to give, in her words, “a lot of strange homilies.” These included “homilies that...
Angela Denker is an author and the pastor of Visitation and Public Theology at Lake Nokomis Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. In 2022, David Brooks published a...
The cliché of the young man in his mother’s basement spending hours playing video games has taken hold of our imagination, but sadly this cliché has real-world...
I had recently given birth to my second child when I first encountered the idea of the “marriage debt.” My ex and I were Catholic converts, and we had become...
“Who do you say I am?” asks Jesus in Luke’s gospel (9:20). His words imply he’s not interested in doctrine or theology. He wants a personal response, not a...
Five of my nine pregnancies were the result of trying to use NFP (natural family planning) with a man who became drunk and abusive towards me and the children...
