Posts Tagged ‘Sexual health’

Love can’t be true if it involves contraception

Friday, August 31st, 2012

The Catholic Church’s Theology of the Body lecture series in Fji last week targeted young people. Two priests from the United States, Fathers Walter Schu and John Paul Duran, spoke to the audience of young people about the use of contraception and the ideas of love and abstinence. “Contraception closes us off to the gift Read more

Priests and the Rome gay sex scene

Friday, April 29th, 2011

There’s a flourishing gay scene for priests in Rome, according to a new book due out soon. Sex and the Vatican: a secret journey in the reign of the chaste, will publish testimonies from priests and from undercover reporting. Carmelo Abbate, an investigative journalist, authored the book which will be published in Italian and French. Abbate Read more

Fiji health workers train in sexual health counselling

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Fiji reproductive health practitioners have taken part in a one-day training program on reproductive health. Program’s director, Joanne Cohen says Fiji has a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases. Cohen told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program that condoms are not widely used or accepted and the prgram was part of a plan to merge counselling Read more