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1. CONTEMPORARY CRISES IN SECULAR SEXUAL MORALITY: INSIDIOUS “RIGHTS”; GENDER DYSPHORIA and GENDER IDEOLOGY: Women Betrayed by the “Sexual Revolution” and “The Pill.” Pope Francis on Gender Ideology 2. A REVIEW of ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING and CATHOLIC MORAL PRINCIPLES: Conscience; Aquinas on Eternal Law & Natural Law; Double Effect. Pope John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor; Vatican II on Divine & Natural Law |
3. A REVIEW of MAGISTERIAL CATHOLIC TEACHING on HUMAN SEXUALITY, CHASTITY, and CELIBACY: The Catechism of the Cathoic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas est. Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia.
4.
THE
ONGOING
CRISIS IN
CATHOLIC
SEXUAL
MORALITY:
:
Review of and Update on
Sexual Abuse Crisis. Models
of Christian Modesty and Intimacy; Ministry,
Friendship, and the Universal Need for Appropriate Boundaries.
5.
THE HISTORY
AND DEVELOPMENT
of
CATHOLIC
TEACHING on
HUMAN
SEXUALITY,
CHASTITY,
and
CELIBACY:
A) The Early and Medieval Church. Peter Brown on early Christianity, sexual renunciation,
and marriage. Celibacy in the early and medieval Church.
B) The Modern Church. Sexuality and Sacramentality:
Selections from relevant magisterial texts: Casti Connubii, Gaudium et Spes, Humanae
Vitae, Familiaris Consortio;. Amoris Laetitia.
The Concept of
Sexual Pleasure in the Catholic Moral Tradition
(Kochuthura 8.6-8.7).
6.
A
REVIEW
of
THE
THEOLOGY
of
THE
BODY:
Selections from Pope John Paul II, Male and Female He Created Them
7a.
HUMAN
SEXUALITY from the Perspective of the Behavioral Sciences.
Developmental sexuality and sexual maturity. Psychopathology,
psychopathy, and assessing the risk of violence.
7b.
SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
and IMPAIRMENT:
ADDICTIONS
and HABITS
Addiction, classical virtue-theory and modern psychology.
7c. GENDER IDEOLOGY, GENDER DYSPHORIA, and TRANSSEXUALISM
8.
SEXUALITY
and
ABSTINENCE;
NATURAL
FAMILY
PLANNING
and
INFERTILITY
Review of Reproductive Physiology and Natural Family Planning. The
Church's response to contraceptive technology and infertility. Humanae Vitae; Evagelium Vitae; Familiaris Consortio.
9.
TOWARDS A
COVENANT
THEOLOGY
of CELIBACY
A) The Three Pillars: (1) Spiritual Direction;
(2) Prayer;
(3) Support Group.
B) Stages
of Celibacy, Ministry,
Friendship, and the Universal Need for Appropriate Boundaries
(Part 2)
Presentation by Msgr. Craig Cox, Vicar for Clergy,
Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Declaration on certain questions concerning sexual ethics
(Persona Humana). Pope John Paul II, The Theology of Marriage and
Celibacy.
10.
PASTORAL
APPROACHES
to
HOMOSEXUALITY,
TRANSSEXUALISM.
and GENDER
IDEOLOGY
On The Pastoral Care of Homosexual
Person (October 1st, 1986); Considerations regarding proposals to
give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons (July 31,
2003). Amoris Laetitia;
Male and
Female He Created Them
11.
COMMON
BIOETHICAL
DILEMMAS
CONCERNING
HUMAN
SEXUALITY
Abortion; Embryo adoption; finding Christ at the end of life.
Pope John Paul II, Evagelium Vitae; SCDF, Instruction on
Respect for Human Life (Donum Vitae); Declaration on Euthanasis, (Jura et
Bona).
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