A lot of us have heard the canard: “The Catholic Church has a hang-up when it comes to sex.”
If you hear this while you are on your way out the door to Mass today, just smile patiently.
You are no prude. You are on your way to celebrate one of the Church’s biggest feast days, the day when a man and his wife had sex, and the world was changed forever.
We are not afraid of the way God made us, male and female. We say that it is good for men and women to get married and make babies.
The peddlers of the contraceptive culture of death–they are the prudes. Their stratagems try to turn sex into something shameful.
Sexual sin is shameful, sure enough. But the Church does not have feast days for sins, and today is the feast day of the conception of a baby.
Today is the day when God, St. Joachim, and St. Ann–together–gave us our Lady. She was conceived the old-fashioned way. God made a new Garden of Eden in St. Ann’s womb. The baby was pure from the first moment of her tiny, beautiful existence!
REDSKINS ADDENDUM
…continuing with the P&BD theme of telling it like it is, here is a Chris Cooley quote for you:
“We just sucked. Right now we suck as an offense.”
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