Why do students need a course that is so comprehensive and explicit?
(From the “Introduction to Parents” in Sexual Wisdom for Catholic Adolescents) We have purposely written the course to offer a fairly complete coverage of a wide range of subjects. Issues related to sexuality are significant enough to devote a good deal of energy and time to teaching about them. Because of the importance of sexuality, Pope John Paul II made the subject a central theme of his pontificate. His numerous contributions on sexuality include books (The Theology of the Body, Love and Responsibility), encyclicals (The Gospel of Life [Evangelium Vitae]), apostolic exhortations (Familiaris Consortio), apostolic letters (Letter to the Family), etc. The first part of Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, God is Love, also picks up on the theme. I highly recommend that parents read these wonderful resources and discuss them or make them available to their children. Another reason for completeness is that I wrote this course to mold my children into Catholic activists-soldiers for Ch
