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Chastity As an Issue for Today, by John M. Grondelski – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 25, 2025

John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is a former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. All views expressed herein are his own.

While the Synodal church has ignored one of the most devastated teachings of the Church in modernity, Fr. T.G. Morrow’s latest book on chastity reminds us why it needs our focus.

Somewhere, about ten years ago, just as Pope Francis was getting into “synodality,” I remember hearing an author say that if the pontiff was looking for a truly relevant but countercultural theme for a synod, “chastity” was the one.

I think the idea came from George Weigel, but I’ve never been able subsequently to track it down. It’s one of those things you regret not having saved when you had it. But the idea remains true.

No small number of contemporary problems, big and small, are related to chastity and its contemporary lack. At the same time, one can imagine the level of global derision the pope would have faced had he actually picked this very pastorally salient topic for a synod. …

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Chastity As an Issue for Today, by John M. Grondelski

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By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 25, 2025

While the Synodal church has ignored one of the most devastated teachings of the Church in modernity, Fr. T.G. Morrow’s latest book on chastity reminds us why it needs our focus.

Somewhere, about ten years ago, just as Pope Francis was getting into “synodality,” I remember hearing an author say that if the pontiff was looking for a truly relevant but countercultural theme for a synod, “chastity” was the one.

I think the idea came from George Weigel, but I’ve never been able subsequently to track it down. It’s one of those things you regret not having saved when you had it. But the idea remains true.

No small number of contemporary problems, big and small, are related to chastity and its contemporary lack. At the same time, one can imagine the level of global derision the pope would have faced had he actually picked this very pastorally salient topic for a synod. …

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