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By Fr. Bryce Lungren, Crisis Magazine, Jan.4, 2024

Fr. Bryce Lungren was blessed to grow up in a family with deep Wyoming roots. After graduating high school in Worland, WY in 1998, he moved to Montana where he worked in the world and grew in his Catholic faith.

The divorce of the sexual act from procreation has led to all our problems regarding sexuality today.

Fr. Bryce LungrenWe had a grandpa-like priest at seminary that would hang around and encourage us young bucks in our priestly formation. Once, when I was working on my thesis about the Goods of Marriage, I asked Msgr. Leone, “When you were growing up and someone mentioned the sexual act, what came to your mind?” With no hesitation he said, “Procreation.”

Seventy years ago I don’t doubt that was the common response to a straightforward question on sexuality. After all, procreation is the natural end to the sexual act. However, I bet you’d be hard-pressed to find one in a hundred people today who would honestly say that procreation is the first thought that comes to mind when someone mentions sex. …

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