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Hook-up Culture on Catholic Campuses
Submitted by MollyJ on June 10, 2008 - 5:13am. --- Human SexualityIn the recent issue of National Catholic Reporter, Kris Berggren has this excellent article on sexuality on secular and catholic college campuses titled Sexual Ethics: Even on Catholic Campuses Hook-up Sex Prevails.
http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/1072
I really greet seeing this issue addressed in research and in NCR.
My personal feelings on extra-marital sexuality has always been that when you become sexually involved with someone--in or out of marriage--you give away a piece of yourself. Whether this spending of the self is a true gift or spendthrift behavior is often determined by the futures but nothing is more repugnant to me thanso-called hook-up sex. So much is given up for ostensibly only a sexual outlet--since it is implicitly non-committment oriented.
Getting Real: The Hidden Room in a Man’s Heart - For Father’s Day 2008
Posted on Jun 10, 2008 06:30am CST.| El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés | |
| Vol. 1, No. 14 June 10, 2008 | Signup for Weekly E-mail |
THE LEAF SCAR
The leaf forms
slowly unfolds
feeding off the sugar it makes,
cooking in the kiln of the sun,
sending this sun-sugar through
the tiny venous system of its body.
The life of the leaf burgeons, lilts,
colors it green, red, yellow, then brown.
...The leaf falls,
leaving a scar on the branch,
etching the wood, so you can see
something has broken away.
End of life? No.
Pax Christi
Posted on Jun 10, 2008 08:24am CST.| On the Road to Peace by John Dear S.J. | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| Vol. 2, No. 40 |
Last month in Santa Fe, Pax Christi New Mexico held its first “Assembly Day,” and just this past weekend in Albuquerque, held its annual retreat. What a healing time we had, these gathered souls. Together, we’re building a base-community movement for justice and peace. Therein lies the hope in Pax Christi’s vision.
