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Episode 50
Published 5 years, 2 months ago
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- Intro: Welcome to the podcast Interior Integration for Catholics -- the podcast formerly known as Coronavirus Crisis: Carpe Diem! And for one episode, the last episode we called it "Resilient Catholics" -- but there is a podcast out there already called "The Resilient Catholic" so we don’t want to create confusion and division.
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- Human Formation
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- Radical Transformation
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- Shoring up the natural foundation for the spiritual life
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- Resilience
- I’m clinical psychologist Peter Malinoski and I am here with you, to be your host and guide.
- This podcast is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach at soulsandhearts.com, which is all about shoring up our natural foundation for the Catholic spiritual life, all about overcoming psychological obstacles to being loved and to loving God and neighbor
- This is episode 50, released on January 11, 2021
- and it is titled: In Search of a healthy, ordered sexuality.
- This is the second episode in our series on sexuality.
- We are going to spend time on sexuality and in the coming weeks we will address many topics, including masturbation, pornography, adulterous affairs, pre-marital sex, asexuality, homosexuality, artificial contraception and sexual trauma and its effects.
- But to put those issues into context, we need to understand what a health sexuality looks like.
- Vitally important because sexuality is so sensitive to how we live our lives in the natural realm
- Also vitally important because an authentic Catholic view on sexuality is so radically different from what the world offers us.
- Most baptized Catholic reject Catholic teaching on many sexual issues.
- So many Catholics struggle with sexual issues. Lots of confusion. Lots of distress.
- We need a guiding star, an image of what sexuality should be. That's what this episode is about.
- We will look at the authoritative sources of Catholic teaching
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- but really flesh them out in a way that appreciates how people are wired physiologically, neurologically and psychologically
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- So we can have answers to why we so often find ourselves falling and going astray in the sexual realm.
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- Vitally important to recognize a healthy sexuality because our sexuality is so sensitive to how we live our lives in the natural realm -- are we living in an ordered, virtuous way in harmony with natural and divine realities, or are we basing our actions on our subjective, distorted perceptions of reality. Sexuality is either the first or one of the first areas in our life to go wrong when we depart from reality. Sensitive barometer to how things are ordered or not ordered in our lives.
- Most baptized Catholic report that they reject Catholic teaching on many sexual issues.
- Pew 2014 Survey of more than 7200 Catholics, 57% Favor or Strongly Favor Same-sex Marriages
- Pew 2016 survey of 817 Catholics only 8% of Catholics believe using contraception is morally wrong. 41% believe its morally acceptable and 48% believe it's not a moral issue.
- Lots more statistics
- Social referencing: evaluating one’s own modes of thinking, expression, or behavior by comparing them with those of other people so as to understand how to react in a particular situation and to adapt one’s actions and reactions in ways that are perceived to be appropriate. APA dictionary
- Lukewarm Catholics look a lot like lukewarm Methodists, look a lot like lukewarm Jews, look a lot like lukewarm Buddhists, look a lot like lukewarm agnostics, look a lot like lukewarm atheists.