Pornography is teaching “permission giving beliefs” which include all men go with prostitutes, women like to be raped, women enjoy degrading sex and children want to have sex with adults. Dr Mary Anne Layden, US psychotherapist, said one of her patients told her children liked having sex with adults because they saw photos of this on the internet and the…
Written By Catholic News Admin Sunday October 9, 2016 National conversation on pornography next weekend Bishop Robert Llanos, Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of St John’s-Basseterre will, on Saturday, deliver the feature address at the start of the two-day symposium Consider This! A National Conversation on Pornography. Parents, educators, medical/legal professionals, religious groups, government agencies and the public will…
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMATT)
“Love can wait to give, Lust can’t wait to get.” This is a tagline we borrowed from Jason Evert in his presentation called “Romance Without Regret”. The line about love describes, we think, all who use the Billings Method for family planning purposes. The “waiting” required when practicing this Method accurately is the “love” to which is being referred.
Sign up for a Retrouvaille weekend By Lara Pickford-Gordon The issues facing married couples today may be the same as in the past but social media “has brought about other avenues that may encourage infidelity”, said Mary Jardine, of Retrouvaille Trinidad and Tobago. “Sexting, pornography, less couple time, ‘married singles’ lifestyle, lack of affirmation and/or appreciation by spouses for each other…
There’s a way to make a seemingly good marriage even better. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) Movement has been offering weekend encounters for married couples for over 35 years in T&T. To keep up with the changing needs of today’s couples though, WWME has now adjusted its approach to serving married couples with busy lifestyles and commitments. The International Board has approved…
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMA-TT).
At our “Is Love Forever?” seminars we discuss the virtue of chastity and relationships. Part of the seminar is dedicated to the meaning and purpose of marriage. Once, when I arrived at the Power-Point slide on the complementarity between males and females, one young man blurted out that Pope Francis supports “gay marriage”! I quickly corrected him, stating that what the Pope actually said was that he cannot judge our homosexual brothers and sisters, so we as Catholics should not judge them either.
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMA-TT).This is part three of a three-part series that examines Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on human life, Humanae Vitae, from a female perspective.
“Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and the general lowering of moral standards…The young, who are so exposed to temptation, need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law…” (Consequences of Artificial Methods, HV #17).
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMATT). This is part two of a three part series that examines Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on human life, Humanae Vitae, from a female perspective.
“…concerning the moral laws governing marriage, that human intelligence has both the right and responsibility to control those forces of irrational nature which come within its ambit and to direct them toward ends beneficial to man…If therefore there are well-grounded reasons for spacing births, arising from the physical or psychological condition of husband or wife, or from external circumstances, the Church teaches that married people may take advantage of the natural cycles immanent in the reproductive system and engage in marital intercourse only during those times that are infertile, thus controlling birth in a way which does not in the least offend the moral principles which we have just explained.” (Humanae Vitae #16, Recourse to Infertile Periods)