If you think St. Augustine instilled the Church with phobias about sex, you probably don’t understand St. Augustine, PhD student Meghan Bowen told an audience of theology students Jan. 9 at Regis College in Toronto.

OTTAWA – With the ubiquitous use of smartphones and computer screens, today������Ƶapp youth face both immense challenges and opportunities, say Catholic youth leaders.

Several years ago, a man showed up at a magazine company where I worked demanding to be paid “his” million dollars.

VATICAN CITY – Be cautious about scientific data that offer to be the sole basis and single explanation for the differences between men and women, the Vatican newspaper said.

VATICAN CITY – Sex should be focused on love, not egotism or pleasure, according to the Vatican.

Sex is not something the Church fears or is trying to control. Sex is not the opposite of prayer and spirituality, it������Ƶapp not something we grudgingly concede to the young. Sex is not merely the mechanism of reproduction, although there������Ƶapp no such thing as a full and true understanding of sex that can’t live with our human capacity to make babies.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican commission on clerical sexual abuse has wrapped up a turbulent week-long meeting during which one of two victims on the panel was effectively ousted and Chilean Catholics upset that Pope Francis has not sacked a controversial bishop delivered protest letters.

No generation in history, I suspect, has ever experienced as much change as we have experienced in the past 60 years. That change is not just in the areas of science, technology, medicine, travel and communications, it is especially in the area of our social infrastructure, of our communal ethos. And perhaps nowhere is this change more radical than in how we understand sex. In the past 70 years we have witnessed three major, tectonic shifts in how we understand the place of sex in our lives.

VATICAN CITY - Eradicating male and female identities does nothing to solve the problem of unfair or disrespectful treatment based on people's gender, Pope Francis said.