My House
Blessed are the Pure in Heart
My House is a diocesan initiative to foster the virtue of chastity and increase awareness of the effects of pornography on society.
Click here to see a video produced by the diocese to underscore the dangers of pornography.
If you have been harmed by pornography, there is support and healing. Call now.
Confidential help 816-808-6544
ATTENTION:
The free "Brain Science & Marital Intimacy" workshop scheduled for tonight has been cancelled due to extenuating circumstances. We apologize to those who had planned on attending. We hope to offer the workshop at a future date (TBD), so please stay tuned!
Brain Science & Marital Intimacy
Free Workshop for Parents, Pastors and Educators at the
A workshop on recent neuroscience discoveries and how they can help us understand how the brain is made for relationship and the implications these discoveries reveal about healthy marital intimacy and the powerful negative effects of pornography on the brain.
Presented by Michael Ciaccio, M.S., P.L.P.C., a professional therapist who directs the My House support groups and offers private counseling as part of the My House initiative.
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Contact Katie Klinckman to RSVP klinckman@diocesekcsj.org 816-714-2373
These presentations are for an adult audience.
My House is an apostolate of the Diocese of Kansas City—
Read and subscribe to the My House blog for the latest news and articles on current issues.
If you would like to request copies of the above "sharing card" you may do so confidentially by sending an e-mail to Dino Durando with the Office of Family Life.
If you are willing to help educate others about the effects of pornography, the diocese offers training for small group leaders. To learn how you can help, please contact the Office of Family Life, at (816) 756-1850 ext. 551.
Read an article about this initiative published in the National Catholic Register.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us:
2354 Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials
The Call to Chastity
Pornography promotes and is sin against chastity. It perverts the God-given desire for intimacy and union, and conditions the soul in such a way as to make this intimacy impossible. As Christians we are called to practice the virtue of chastity appropriate to our condition in life, married, single, religious or priest.
Choose this day whom you will serve - but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. -- Joshua 24:15