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Mission Statement
The mission of the Apostolate of St. Jerome is to restore celibacy and virginity
to their rightful place of esteem in the Catholic Church. In the face of an
onslaught of sexual sin inside and outside the Church, many are responding to
this crisis with erroneous teachings about sex that are alien to the Catholic
faith. While the Church’s infallible doctrines are as sound as ever, individual
bishops, priests, lay leaders, and theologians can err and often do. As a result
Catholics are being inundated these days with a message about sex that is so
incoherent and illogical that rational people feel justified in rejecting
Catholic morality. Catholics have largely abandoned our sexual teachings, and
the world is in even worse shape. At the same time, celibacy is increasingly
under attack from theologians and other lay people who don't live the true
Catholic morality themselves. To counter this, we propose and defend a new
sexual theology that puts emphasis where it belongs—on celibacy and
virginity—not on sex and marriage like today’s novel, erroneous theologies. We
show that our theology is more consistent with the received Faith, and better
equipped to confront a culture hostile to God’s sexual morals. Its central tenet
is that God created Adam and Eve to live virginity, and they copulated only
after the Fall once sex came about as a result of sin. We complement this with a
total vision of human sexuality, and promote a world where the vast majority of
people live celibacy like Jesus and the Virgin Mary. We draw from Scripture,
Church Fathers, and magisterial texts to convince Catholics and hopefully all
Christians to re-embrace the truth about sex that was revealed to Israel, taught
by Jesus and His apostles, and kindled by the saints in every age.
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