I also have to note I can’t find you on Facebook. Are you sure you’re a student?

Catholic U is not “regressing” as the author puts it. Rather it is simply reaffirming its beliefs of Catholic social teaching rather than simply seeing sex as just a “trendy thing.” I’d also suggest the author take a look at Pope John Paul II’s “The Theology of the Body.” It has very little to do with scaring people because of the “dangers of sex.” We’ve had so many people complain that the Church has used fear as a tactic for too many years. Scaring kids about sex is not a good abstinence policy. The Church’s belief on sex is that there is no love without responsibility. The ideal love between two people who become intimate does eventually include sexual expression of that love. But it is only when that sexual expression takes place in the deepest context of love that the human person lives up to all they were created to be.

Living in a dorm, when you’re 18 going into your 20s, without knowing really who you are, what you’ll end up doing, without enough money to be able to make any genuinely responsible financial decisions much less any truly wise relationship decisions that are completely selfless on behalf of another human being—this is not the “real world”. Nor is it the “real world” where men and women live in giant co-ed dorms. What world is this? Let’s be honest, college is one of the best places in the world for a casual meaningless hookup. If you think the entire world is just a paradise of sexual choice and unchecked sexual activity, you’re going to be very disappointed once you get outside the dorms.

The thing that bothers me most about this article, is that the author suggests that when a culture is “obsolete”, it must somehow mean that the culture never had any positive intention, or anything truthful to offer. For that matter I wonder if the author actually believes in truth. Catholic U is reaffirming a teaching already in existence, far from “obsolete”. It does need the approval of 20 something-year old students arguing that morality is old fashioned and that upholding what you believe is only ok provided it’s popular.

I’m sorry, I’m no chaste nun, or some virgin monk, but I’m not sure how you can justify the point of this article. They’ve made a decision consistent with Catholic social doctrines, a doctrine that if the author might take a look into, is not some archaic idea, but an idea regarding human beings using their freedom to its greatest extent for the purpose of true and real love, not just some casual encounter where one person or both people uses each other. Not saying students don’t fall in love, not saying that those kids are bad people because they’ve had sex…. I am saying that that’s not the Church’s ideal, because they aspire to a higher form of love. Not a sexless world, but a world that uses sex consciously. This article reads like so many others of this world that would rather pretend our every desire is a perfect thing and we are above reproach. How very transparent.