Catholic Education ‘Antidote to Hook-up Culture,’ Says World Meeting of Families Speaker

[trotsky]

http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4361/Catholic-Education-%E2%80%98Antidote-to-Hook-up-Culture-%E2%80%99-Says-World-Meeting-of-Families-Speaker.aspx

Catholic colleges have the opportunity and crucial responsibility to help students embrace a life of virtue, by providing a faithful liberal arts curriculum that is the perfect counter to the “hook-up culture” and environment of “casual sex” that has become stereotypical of modern college campuses, according to World Meeting of Families speaker Erika Bachiochi.

The Cardinal Newman Society interviewed Bachiochi, a legal scholar specializing in Catholic sexual ethics and Catholic social teaching who will give a presentation titled “No Strings Attached? Responding to the ‘Hook-up’ Culture” at the upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. The author of Women, Sex and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching and a regular contributor to the Mirror of Justice blog has been described by papal biographer George Weigel as “one of the intellectual leaders of the new Catholic feminism in the United States.”

“The best education a Catholic college can offer is one that is robustly dedicated to the liberal arts tradition,” she said. “This sort of classical training in faith, intellect, will and desire provides both the structure and content for the development of the virtues needed for living a life of sexual integrity.”

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College students need to know that casual sex is not and does not have to be the norm during their time in college, explained Bachiochi. They need to know the data, know that there are other students who are faithful throughout college and they need to know the damaging effects stemming from pre-marital sex, birth control, abortion and the “relationship vacuum” created by society’s “sexual script,” she said.

JUST SAY NO!! College students will stop having sex if we tell them to, right?

[cheapdate]

1. I don't know...I went to a Catholic liberal arts college

and the social life of the students was as freewheeling as any of the big state party colleges.

The Catholic college I went to was actually a Jesuit institution, Spring Hill Society of the Jesuits, or Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. Many of my professors were Jesuits.

I wouldn't trade the liberal arts education for anything, but sex and 'hookup culture' are the same at Loyola as they are at Ohio State. The speaker in the OP is delusional.

[edhopper]

2. I wish casual sex

was a little more the norm for me when I was at school. More times than not it was the exception.

[Humanist_Activist]

3. May I just say that the Catholic Church has absolutely no credibility when it comes to sex...

sexuality, family structure, gender identity, or pretty much ANYTHING that has ANYTHING to do with human relationships or human nature, either on the personal level or societal level. You will learn nothing useful there except purely by accident, and with a lot of unnecessary and destructive guilt thrown in.

[cleanhippie]

4. To be fair, the RCC may be the leading expert on pedophile sex culture.

There's a lot of that going on with them, I hear. They like to keep it hush-hush, though.

[trotsky]

5. And they have a loyal army of dolts...

who will put up whatever obnoxious smokescreen or deflection they can in order to avoid discussing the problem.

[cleanhippie]

6. I'm sure some of them will be along shortly.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Always eager to control people.

Step one on the path to accessing their wallets and bank accounts. Convince them they are 'bad people' go need saving from your imaginary friend.