Catholic Views On Adolescents And Sexual Activities

For centuries, society has placed a remarkably large emphasis on protecting the young from the many perceived errors of growing up. Effective sex education is resisted in many locations across the country in favor of somewhat comical biblical suggestions for abstinence until marriage even while the majority of those targeted teens are viewing the world as a more and more sexual place. So many views are weaving in and out of teenagers' newly formed adolescent minds that any effective argument for responsible attitudes or analysis of sexual behavior in teens should be expressed with a certain minimal degree of clarity. Unfortunately, this essential lucidity of advice is missing in the short story “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been,”

To start with, let's take a type of religion, christianity, and the United States’s society and see how their views of sex are. Since the christian religion is large , I will narrow it down to my christianity, Baptist, in order to avoid conflict with other christian

Now in school instructors would take three options, abstinence-only, comprehensive, or no sex education program at all. There is two other places that talk about some type of sex, church and home. The church says that you should wait to have sex for marriage, that is if you believe in God. When your at home it’s up to your parents, planned parenthood says that it’s best to start talking with their children about sex when they are in their early childhood. I do not think that it is the church’s place to say weather you can have sex or not. [Jesus] said, "It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." (NRSV, Mark

The Christian religion implements the use of scripture as the highest command for the way in which sexual ethics is implemented. Christian teaching explores several issues in light of sexuality such as extra-marital and pre-marital sex, homosexuality and pro-creation and I will write about these in this essay.

There are so many teens that feel that there is nothing wrong in having sex before marriage, but having sexual relations with numerous people from age 15 and 19 doubles the diseases that have been spreading to different people every time. Because teenagers are having

We live in a society today that tolerates and accepts many things Catholics would classify as “gravely sinful” or “morally wrong”. The act of fornification and homosexual acts are both mortal sins that most Catholics commit. At a very young age, the principle of marital sex between a husband and wife is instilled into the minds of children. Growing up in a religious home, I was taught that sex is an important and sacred matter that only married couples could partake in. Like many others, I rejected and frowned upon pre-marital sex. However, after reading an article about a person’s experiences, I finally understood that no one should dictate your life – specifically, what you do with your body.

This is important because priestly celibacy is very controversial. Chastity is living holy in the physical or sexual way. This will vary according to lifestyle and does not necessarily mean abstaining from sexual intercourse. The Church calls it’s faithful to lead a chaste life by experiencing sex within a sacramental marriage or by choosing to abstain while in an unmarried state. Deacons and married couples take vows of chastity as well as lay sisters and nuns. Celibacy is the state of abstaining from marriage which entails abstaining from sexual intercourse. This is the state of lifestyle or discipline for religious men and women, as well as those who simply live a single lifestyle. For some Roman Catholic priests, however, there are exceptions. For example, some Lutheran and Episcopal ministers who are married and have converted to Catholicism remain married. Deacons are not required to live this spiritual lifestyle. The religious take vows of celibacy when they are ordained or make their perpetual vows. Any sexual act, including the use of pornography, that violates one's vows or their lifestyle, is considered a sin against chastity or celibacy. Sexual abuse is such a sin. Not only is it a sin in itself, but it also entails other sins against chastity. These sins are lust, fornication, and rape and are in a violation of a priest’s vow of

Also, the Church excludes all forms of premarital actions, which occurs either before, during or after sexual intercourse, which specifically is expected to prevent procreation, ‘whether as an end or as a means’.

Although there is no clear directive about the sanctity of marriage in the New Testament, many councils based their decisions on celibacy from the gospel writers. Paul, for example, "counseled a moderate approach. Stopping short of suggesting that sexual relations within marriage were in any way defiling, Paul portrayed marriage, like much human activity, as a distraction from prayer." He saw that individuals who are unmarried have more time to focus on the Lord. Paul also made a distinction between married and unmarried women. He states that "there is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband." Unlike in the Old Testament, the New Testament emphasizes how relationships can make a person unfocused instead of unclean. Celibacy also has its origins in Jesus' position, as no text reveals that he got married. The Second Vatican Council, for instance, saw priests who took up celibacy as an imitation of Christ. Jesus stated that "if any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." In the Middle Ages, priests would act as Christ's disciples, and thus the Roman

This statement is not only true but has contributed to some of our young men not growing up to be faithful men who love God and lead a family.

The conservative Catholic Church believes in the practice of celibacy. This ideology was reinforced by Pope Benedict XVI when he stated

Intercourse is designed for a mature man and woman who love each other as 1 Corinthians 7 reads, “Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.” (English Standard Version, 1 Corinthians 7: 1-5.). The bible also says, “Then God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the

There is a polarization between Catholics who believe in the Church’s Sexual Teaching, conservative Catholics, and those who fight for Catholic Social Teaching, liberal Catholics. Both highly value the Church’s teachings and encourage society to change in order to address either the social or sexual protection of humans. While there is a division within the pews, in reality these two teachings actually cooperate with and reinforce each other. Two groups do not see how these teachings greatly impact one another and only through their intersection is it possible to defend the rights of the marginalized. This paper will agree with Erika Bachiochi and argue that the Church’s social and sexual teachings collaborate and rely upon each other by

Any kind of sexual expression is limited to marriage, and even, sexual relationships in marriage were only justified for procreation.

Sex is the sacred sigh of the covenant with God, when a couple has sex they are sealing the covenant with God. Breaking this sign of the covenant is one of the most harmful sins that we as a people can expose ourselves to. In order for us to enter into heaven God says "But among you there must not even be a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity...because these are improper for God's holy people.1" Breaking the sign of the covenant with God is breaking God's law and going against everything God wants for us. God doesn't ask much from us considering all that he has given us, he asks us only to follow his laws, in Jesus said, "If you love me, you will obey what I command.1" Premarital sex goes against God's command and ruins our relationship with him.