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What the Church Teaches About Sex: God's Plan for Happiness
Despite the outcome of a world wounded by sexual exploitation and addiction, there is room for hope through the reasonableness and goodness of Catholic sexual morality.
Beginning with a thorough survey of the Church's historic attitude toward human sexuality, author Robert Fastiggi proceeds to discuss five contemporary hot buttons of pornography, masturbation, homosexuality, fornication and cohabitation, and marital chastity. He goes on to cover sexual sins in a realistic and compassionate manner taking note of both human weakness and the power of God s grace.
In a practical and pastoral manner, Fastiggi shines the comprehensive yet clear light of Church teaching on this complex, confusing, and often culturally ambiguous topic.
Includes an introduction by renowned Catholic bioethics scholar and professor Janet E. Smith and a useful appendix that summarizes key Church documents on sexual morality.
Beginning with a thorough survey of the Church's historic attitude toward human sexuality, author Robert Fastiggi proceeds to discuss five contemporary hot buttons of pornography, masturbation, homosexuality, fornication and cohabitation, and marital chastity. He goes on to cover sexual sins in a realistic and compassionate manner taking note of both human weakness and the power of God s grace.
In a practical and pastoral manner, Fastiggi shines the comprehensive yet clear light of Church teaching on this complex, confusing, and often culturally ambiguous topic.
Includes an introduction by renowned Catholic bioethics scholar and professor Janet E. Smith and a useful appendix that summarizes key Church documents on sexual morality.
174 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2008
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April 5, 2020
This book helped me to understand the Church's teaching on sex and the defense for God's plan for Human Happiness.
The author, Fastiggi, writes with exceptional clarity; drawing from sources of the present and the past that are fitting- not just scholarly.
I greatly appreciated the consistency in this book; I felt like I was reading a song in the sense that a refrain kept coming back in through the lyrics. This refrain is the consistency of the Church defending, supporting, and encouraging God's plan for human happiness- that God created us to be loved and to love.
The author, Fastiggi, writes with exceptional clarity; drawing from sources of the present and the past that are fitting- not just scholarly.
I greatly appreciated the consistency in this book; I felt like I was reading a song in the sense that a refrain kept coming back in through the lyrics. This refrain is the consistency of the Church defending, supporting, and encouraging God's plan for human happiness- that God created us to be loved and to love.
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