Talks Offered by Our Speakers
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Romance Without Regret Jason Evert Today’s teens experience greater temptations than ever before. In the midst of this cultural assault against innocence and virtue, young people need convincing reasons to practice the virtue of chastity. Chastity is more than abstinence, it is about what you can do and have—right now: a lifestyle that brings freedom, respect, peace, and romance without regret. Get the male and female perspectives on living chastely, as you listen to their life-changing message. |
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From Top Model to Role Model - Leah's Witness Talk Leah Darrow In this powerful presentation, Leah focuses on mercy, forgiveness and the ability to change your life. . . all of it. Using her personal testimony, she encourages all people to realize their call for greatness, rather than comfort. She also emphasizes the role of women in the Catholic Church, how this effects men and how each of them can unveil the lie of perfectionism that targets men and women, enabling them to see the truth. |
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Fashion and Chastity: How it all ‘fits’ together (For all-girl high school assemblies, retreats, or rallies) Leah Darrow
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Moral Issues: Abortion; Homosexuality; Contraception Jim Blackburn We will address Church teaching on today’s three hottest moral topics and consider these controversial questions: • Is abortion murder? |
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Contraception: Man’s Failed Design for Love Karlo Broussard Standing strong with the Catholic Church amidst vicious objectors, Karlo gives reasons why the practice of artificial contraception directly opposes God’s design for marital love and thus robs spouses of the true happiness that God wills within a marriage. Using the principles of natural law, He proves that contraception is an act that violates the very ordination of the conjugal act as ordained by God. In reality, Karlo demonstrates that contraception violates the very nature of the human being. He convincingly proves that contraception robs lovers of the love that they wish to express. |
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The Clash of Worldviews: Moral Relativism vs. Moral Absolutism Karlo Broussard Karlo takes on the modern mentality that denies an objective moral standard to which all must adhere and makes moral rights and wrongs subject to the individual’s decision. With a preciseness that embodies the statement of clarity is beauty, Karlo reveals the self-contradictions present within the logic of the moral relativists. Karlo emphatically demonstrates that in the clash of worldviews about morality the moral relativists cannot stand upon the ground of reason. |
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Black And White - Moral Clarity In A World Of Gray Tim Staples Tim demonstrates theological and moral principles for action in the Christian life that can transform us in our daily lives. From the way we treat our neighbor at the grocery store, to the way we witness to the Faith to the guy who attacks the Catholic Faith, to the way we vote in the privacy of the polling booth, Catholics are called to “act like Catholics” in both word and deed. Using the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Sacred Scripture, Tim shows how “Christ’s whole life is a mystery of redemption” (CCC 517) and how “Christ enables us to live in him all that he himself lived, and he lives it in us (CCC 521). The life of the Christian becomes “a mystery of redemption” when we understand the power that is unleashed when we act in Christ for the good without compromise. |
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Five Non-Negotiables Tim Staples In this talk, Tim explains how the “five non-negotiables” are deal-breakers when it comes to Catholics voting in political elections. Abortion, Euthanasia, Embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and so-called homosexual “marriage” are all matters of the Moral Law that have been definitively taught to be intrinsic evils that can never be voted for or supported in any way by Catholics. Tim explains how that according to Pope John Paul II, quoting St. Thomas Aquinas, these so-called “laws” are not laws at all; rather, they are “acts of violence” Catholics can never obey and are obligated to oppose using every licit and reasonable means at their disposal. In this presentation Tim answers such perennial questions as, “What does the Church teach about when human life begins?” “When does ‘ensoulment’ occur?” “What is the difference between using ‘extraordinary means’ for nutrition, hydration, or ventilation, vs. means that are ‘out of the ordinary?’” “How can you say a newly fertilized egg or ‘embryo’ is a person?” “Do we not have a moral obligation to help those with debilitating and/or fatal diseases if there is reason to believe embryonic stem cell research can bring healing to them” “What is cloning?” “If we are bringing a new human life into the world, even through cloning, is this not an intrinsic good? How can we say this could be evil?” Or, “Isn’t the Church discriminating against and violating the ‘rights’ of homosexual persons to marry?” Tim answers these questions and more, including, “What if there are only pro-abortion candidates on the ballet in a given election? What should the Catholic do?” “Are Catholics ‘one issue’ voters, or even ‘five issue’ voters?” “Do Catholics even need to be knowledgeable on all the issues?” Tim will give every Catholic in attendance the tools to be able to respond to these, the most important moral issues of our day, while empowering Catholics to truly “act like Catholics” in every area of their lives, including in the voting booth. |
