A chaste wife influences her husband by obeying him. (Roman) If not chastely, then at least cautiously....

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CHASTITY. A central virtue in the Greek, Roman, and Christian traditions, chastity (Gk. sōphrosunē, Lat. castitas) reflects the values of purity, blamelessness, and order. The term is sometimes misunderstood as referring to asceticism or...

Chastity refers to sexual behaviour of a man or woman acceptable to the ethical norms and guidelines of a certain culture, civilisation or religion. In the western world, the term has become closely associated (and is often used interchangeably) with...

Leslee Unruh knows first-hand that even one good role model with the courage to get involved in a young person's life can make a dramatic difference. "As a teenager, I wanted to stay away from home," says the 46-year-old grandmother. "My mother had...

I read Douglas Besharov's "The Contraceptive Gap" {Outlook, March 12} with sadness and amazement at the faulty reasoning he uses throughout the article. Over and over, the terrible side effects of promiscuity are recounted, as well as an irresponsibility for the innocent lives of...

Your husband was a virgin when you married. What was the story there? Griff and I had very different backgrounds. He was always committed to not having sex before he married. He grew up in a Christian home in a small town in the South....

Fidelity in marriage and premarital abstinence from sex are the key weapons in the fight against AIDS, a senior cardinal who prepared a study on condom use said Wednesday.Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who heads the Vatican office for health care, told The Associated Press that...

A review of what the Catholic Church teaches about chastity and the benefits of remaining chaste until marriage.