Celibacy as Political Resistance by Grant Kaplan | Articles. Just weeks before the 2012 election, in a discussion held in the gymnasium of a small Midwestern Catholic college, the college’s president asked everyone to stand, turned to the large American flag hanging from the rafters, and asked the crowd to recite the Pledge of Allegiance with him. For him, such a gesture seemed the natural or obvious thing to do. But will, or, more importantly, should the next generation of Christian leaders share the same zeal to affirm American civil religion? In increasing numbers, American Christians have come to realize that the ethos and ends of the American government often undermine Christianity and its institutions. Like other Western, secular states, the United States now seems antagonistic to religious institutions, threatening their capacity to form their members and to engage in the practices they need to grow and flourish. It seems more plausible now than in the recent past that Church and state will be locked in a long struggle.
Celibacy and Sexual Capitalism - Ethika Politika. Ever since I first came across Grant Kaplan’s essay on “Celibacy as Political Resistance”, I’ve been musing over his central thesis. Although his subject is an ostensibly sexual one—celibacy—it’s one of the best short essays I’ve read in political theology during the past year, and I think it deserves to be much more widely read. Kaplan’s central claim is that both papal primacy and clerical celibacy function as “spiritual declarations of independence for the modern Christian citizen.” Both of them “preserve Catholic identity, not by petitioning the state for rights but by mounting a theological counteroffensive against the pretensions of the modern nation-state.”
Clerical celibacy in particular “fosters an eschatological imagination.” I was reminded of Kaplan’s thesis recently while reading some of the work of Diana L. To be single and celibate … in today’s world is to be seen as something of an anomaly, someone out of sync with the times. Inicio sexual precoz eleva riesgo de cáncer de cuello uterino. Literatura erótica o pornografía para mujeres | La Opción V. Hace poco me contaba una amiga que había comprado un par de rompecabezas para su hermano en una conocida librería limeña, ubicada en un gran centro comercial. Al llegar a casa se dio con la sorpresa de que le habían incluido, sin que se dé cuenta, un folleto promocional de un libro erótico. Este folleto, de 33 páginas, tenía en la carátula la silueta de una mujer joven. En su cabeza se leía: “Mis fantasías, yo decido”. En un rótulo rojo en el lado superior izquierdo se leía: “Solo para las atrevidas”.
Al lado izquierdo a la altura de su cintura se leía: “Elige tu propia historia… hot!” , y al lado derecho, dentro de una estrella roja: “La protagonista eres tú”. Al abrir el folleto lo primero que encuentras son tres recuadros con diferentes tamaños de calzón, y un cuarto con la silueta de una mujer sin calzón.
Al final del folleto promocional se lee: “Una novela inusual, erótica, sensual y apasionada. «¿Sabes? Me gusta: Me gusta Cargando... The Battle We Didn't Choose. How to give a chastity talk - Chastity. What is emotional chastity? - Chastity. Maybe you’ve heard the term thrown around at your Newman Center. Maybe you read about it in your bible study. Maybe someone used it as their reason for breaking up with you. Emotional chastity, emotional purity, emotional integrity, emotional virtue, whatever people are calling it these days, has become quite a buzz topic in young adult Catholic circles.
But what exactly is it? To answer those questions we’re going to need to turn to the writings of a dead man who was celibate. Just what you were thinking for this new topic on human sexuality, right? The truth is that way before my generation was wearing diapers Blessed Pope John Paul the Great was writing about it and his ideas even stemmed from the great saints who went before him. He started with a little red book called Love and Responsibility. This gem of a book is a complex philosophical work that sometimes goes unnoticed because it wasn’t made for popular consumption. Maybe you’ve seen this before. Be saints, it’s worth it! Sense and Sentimentality. The following is based on Dr. Sri's book, Men, Women and the Mystery of Love In his book Love and Responsibility, John Paul II — then Karol Wojtyla — explains why this often happens to men and women and how we can avoid such disillusionment in the future. More Than Physical In the last issue, we considered one powerful aspect of the attraction between men and women: sensuality.
And we saw how this physical attraction is often characterized by a longing to enjoy the body of another person as an object of pleasure. There is a second kind of attraction, however, that goes beyond physical desire for the body. For example, when boy meets girl, in addition to noticing her "good looks," he also may find himself powerfully drawn to her femininity, her warm personality, her kindness — or as Wojtyla calls it, her feminine "charm. " Such emotional reactions toward persons of the opposite sex happen all the time. Sentimentality can become part of what leads to authentic love. A Sinking Ship Dr. El Papa habla a los jóvenes sobre el noviazgo | Catoliscopio.com.
El Papa Benedicto XVI en el encuentro con parejas de novios en Ancona, Italia presentó al noviazgo como un camino de maduración. 12 septiembre 2011 “Queridos novios, Estoy contento de concluir esta intensa jornada, culmen del Congreso Eucarístico Nacional, encontrándome con vosotros, casi como queriendo confiar la herencia de este acontecimiento de gracia a vuestras jóvenes vidas. Por lo demás, la Eucaristía, don de Cristo para la salvación del mundo, indica y contiene el horizonte más verdadero de la experiencia que estáis viviendo: el amor de Cristo como plenitud del amor humano. Doy las gracias al arzobispo de Ancona-Osimo, monseñor Edoardo Menichelli, por su cordial saludo, y a todos vosotros por esta viva participación; gracias también por las palabras que me habéis dirigido y que yo acojo confiando en la presencia en medio de nosotros del Señor Jesús: ¡sólo Él tiene palabras de vida eterna, palabras de vida para vosotros y para vuestro futuro!
Compártelo con los demás: Me gusta: Temas. Sex is NOT Selfish. On the Meaning of Sex. By J. Budziszewski - published by ISI Books, 2013 A Book Review by Father John McCloskey Rarely have I read in so few pages (145) a book as thought-provoking and compelling as J. Budziszewski's On the Meaning of Sex (ISI Books). Budziszewski, a Yale Ph.D. and professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, has clearly grappled for years with the sad effects of our era's shallow understanding of sex on the lives and psyches of the young people he teaches. While the author is clearly a Christian, God's presence discreetly occupies the background through interspersed quotations from the extraordinary verses of the Spanish mystic St.
Clearly this is the method he follows at the University of Texas in Austin, where his students for the most part (judging from their reactions as recorded here) have trouble thinking clearly on a topic that does not so much concern them as obsess them. In the first chapter of his book, Budziszewski explains why he wrote it: Virginity is Sexual.