The Refusal to Preach Purity in the Face of Sexual License, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Dec 06, 2022

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

Human sexual depravity apparently knows no limits. In the latest effort to break down all barriers to a distorted self-realization of the people, by the people and for the people, a Dean of Trinity College (Cambridge) has defended the speculation of a junior research fellow who displayed photographs of the wounds of Christ and argued that one of the wounds was vaginal in character and suggested that Christ was transgendered: This at an evensong service in the college chapel. I actually hate to mention such a revolting assertion and its defense, which reveals only how far people will go when they are in flight from reality.

But this incident does reveal how determined our modern secular culture is to assert the control of sheer personal desire over being, at least as long as the desires in question are destructive of both our human nature and, consequently, of our understanding of and relationship with God …

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