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I was 15 years old when I experienced several months of sexual abuse at the hands of a parish priest while I worked weekends in
Brother Christopher Sale shares his powerful testimony with ChurchMilitant.com. ChurchMilitant.com interviewed Br. Christopher Sale, a man who spent decades in the homosexual lifestyle and was
This was posted on Facebook at Faith Restored. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. Fair warning: this post is going to be a
After decades of yearning for happiness and joy, I came to see that I had been wrong, mistaken and even victimized. I take full responsibility
Did the “sexual revolution” adversely affect me? You bet it did. My parents emigrated from Ireland to NYC in 1958. They were “old school” when
I have been healing from the effects of the sexual revolution for about 30 years now. If you had told me as a 24-year-old that
My father was incredibly emotionally and physically abusive. Although there was never any sexual abusive per se, he certainly denigrated me as a male. He
It was one of my all-time favorite photos. I was laying on the floor playing with two of my children. My then 2-year-old daughter laid
I was lied to about successful, educated women “having it all,” including marriage and children. I was lied to about the impact of the contraceptive
We were the happy couple, married in our parish almost 30 years ago. After the marriage, my spouse apologized for pressuring before marriage to unchastity.
by Bettina di Fiore on watchingthewhirlwind.net. Posted July 3, 2017. “ And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
At the age of 52, I recently found myself sitting in my mother’s psychologist’s office. She went to him most of her adult life, though
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