| June 19th, 2006 The "Arguments" for Premarital Sex... and the down-to-earth responses you should know I gave a talk recently on sex and dating to a group of Catholic 15- and 16-year-olds in New York City. Since my normal audience is young-adults—Catholics in their 20s and 30s—I planned to ... |
| June 5th, 2006 Catholic Do's and Don'ts: A Guide for Wedding Guests The wedding season is upon us and BustedHalo readers have written in with great questions about religious protocol as we celebrate our friends' marriages. Does attending a Saturday evening ... |
| May 22nd, 2006 Advice from Celibate Clergy Since I began writing this column, scores of readers have emailed me asking for personal advice. I always offer whatever thoughts I can, and usually end letters by recommending that they ... |
| May 8th, 2006 Marriage and Holy Orders: An Anglican Wedding Prompts Questions for Catholics On the Friday after Easter I attended the wedding of my friends Andrea and Simon in Oxford, England. Andrea and Simon are both studying to be vicars, so they have many ... |
| April 24th, 2006 Updating the Best of Pure Sex, Pure Love's First Year For more than a year, I've been writing the Pure Sex, Pure Love column for BustedHalo. We've covered some big topics: When to bring up your faith in a new relationship, how to make sure ... |
| March 30th, 2006 Impure Thoughts: What are they and where do they come from? The Bible tells us "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 26:7) and the Buddha is quoted as saying "What we think, we become." Our ... |
| March 6th, 2006 Give up yourself this Lent and strengthen your relationships at the same time At age 16, I told my father I was giving up going to church for Lent. At 19, I told him I was giving up my virginity for Lent. In the ... |
| February 18th, 2006 How Can Churches Help Young Catholics Find Their Match? So you're single and looking for love. What's on your list? Does she have to be beautiful, smart and funny? Does he have to be caring, tall and handsome? What about the bigger things: Does ... |
| February 6th, 2006 Pure Sex Pure Love #20 A few weeks ago Pope Benedict delivered his first encyclical — a papal letter to the universal Church — entitled Deus Caritas Est (God is Love).OK, so he probably ... |
| January 23rd, 2006 The M-Bomb Conventional wisdom has it that a woman, ever-obsessed with getting married, starts pairing her first name with his last name before the end of date #1—and will ... |
