In some ways the teaching of the Catholic Church on human sexuality is well known. Many people know what the Church teaches, but, unfortunately, many more don’t know why the Church teaches what she does. In this succinct essay, moral theologian William E. May presents the underpinnings of the Church’s sexual ethics to explain the cohesiveness of the teachings that bear such importance in the life of men and women.
“‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Catechesis on Human Sexuality and Sexual Ethics” is an essay from The Great Life: Essays on Doctrine & Holiness in Honor of Father Ronald Lawler, O.F.M., Cap., which includes many other essays on morality, social teaching, and the Christian life by popular Catholic theologians.
About the Author
William E. May was a renowned author and moral theologian and the former Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America.