Episode 942: Purity: First Principles on Purity - Part 1

When one addresses the topic of purity, two wrong positions should be avoided.

The first is the position that was adopted until some time ago, whereby parents, teachers and youth leaders never addressed the theme of purity with their sons, students or followers. In Catechism classes a brief mention was made in passing and that was all. The result was that a person never received a clear orientation regarding purity.

The second is the opposite orientation, much worst than the first, whereby progressivist Catholics discuss questions of purity all the time. They address the topic in vulgar and vile language, in terms that stimulate sensuality instead of helping to control it.