by Karlo Broussard | Sep 20, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question Why is contraception wrong? Answer Here’s the short answer: contraception is wrong because it involves using the sexual faculty while actively frustrating the ends for which it exists. In general, the good for human beings is determined by the ends...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 15, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question When you are perimenopausal, do you have to stop having sex altogether if you do not want to get pregnant? Answer It is never morally licit to use our sexual faculties and at the same time subvert either of the ends of sex, namely procreation and unitive...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 13, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
What can we say to someone who refuses to acknowledge nature’s blueprint for sexual sanity? Someone who, like the character Skipper from the 2014 movie Madagascar Penguins, says, “You know what? I reject nature.” I answer that we should reverence nature’s...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 16, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question My husband says onanism shouldn’t be sinful because Jesus did away with the laws of the Old Testament. Is this true? Answer To define our terms, onanism refers to a type of contraceptive act, coitus interruptus, often called the withdrawal method....
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 8, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question Did the Catholic Church ever teach that sex was to be performed only to have children? Answer It has always been a part of the Church’s teaching that procreation and the rearing of children is the primary end of sex, the unitive aspect being a secondary...
