Synod Update Catholic Laity Speak on Human Sexuality and Belief

Author and Researcher Hilarie Roseman, a Catholic woman, presents a Synod on the Family update to her communication research. This research, taken in 1991, narrates the difficulties of engaging with issues of human sexuality and is very relevant to the same issues being discussed in 2014-5 in Rome. Catholics of Melbourne, Australia were researched: (a) to ascertain lay Catholic access and acceptance of human sexuality messages from the Catholic Church and secular sources in the mass media; (b) to define the issues of human sexuality that they felt were most important to them. One outcome was that Catholics have a fading memory of the words of Jesus Christ. This outcome needs to be understood as the root wound in our communities which needs to be healed. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away" (Luke 21:33). Be aware how large intake of mass media changes the moral tone, and how prayer brings it back again. Make sure you give a copy of this book to your Bishop! Hilarie Roseman PhD