December 3, 2008 Dear Friends in Christ, I was going to talk about Pope Pius the XII today and his sainthood. I am going to put it off a day just to talk about sex before marriage. I saw a post about abortion in Catholic America Today and the person talked about how young adults must control themselves before they have sex. This is all too true. The problem is our society. When we surround ourselves in every aspect of our lives with sex, how can we ask them to resist without proper teaching? Our society has failed to lead. The basic attitude was in when I was growing up, go to college and find out for yourself what sex is all about. I did and it was nothing but heart ache and it has led me to nothing but one disaster in my life to another. I was never told about ways to control myself and the importance of abstaining. I guess that was too hard. Well our church and I do not mean just the priests. I mean the whole church, meaning everyone in the church must rethink our attitude on sex. One can not be afraid to address something because it is too hard of a topic to address and I think that I where we stand today. That is not right. Sex before marriage is a mortal sin. It often leads to other sins if not addressed by reconciliation. We need to talk to the youth about they way society is. Sex has all but ruined my life and I would hate to have the youth of today go through the same thing I went through. As a church we are doing a terrible job of educating our youth. They go to college unprepared to face life. This is one reason I have Catholic America Today. It needs to be a voice of reason in darkness. I am going to reach out to the Youth. Let us all pray on this matter. God Bless, Vern Paul
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