Posts Tagged ‘sex’

My last post was inspired by the following quotation from G. K. Chesterton.  “Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”  I reflected on how we criticize sins in others that we aren’t susceptible to but excuse those which we are more inclined to commit.  I also pointed out how strongly Jesus condemned this kind of self-justifying personal hypocrisy. 

This time I’d like to look at the issue of institutional hypocrisy or the way in which political “liberals” and “conservatives” often agree on evils but find different ones excusable.  Read the rest of this entry »

There has been a great deal of confusion about Pope Benedict XVI’s recent statements in the book of interviews Light of the World (Ignatius Press, 2010) concerning the morality of using condoms.  Actually, what Benedict says is quite clear, but contemporary sound-byte discourse struggles to follow reasoned and nuanced argument.  Here are some clarifications. Read the rest of this entry »