Henri Nouwen, Now & Then Podcast | Ron Rolheiser, "The Spirituality of Longing"
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Roman Catholicism and Sexuality in the Church
Carol Costello: In the book, "The Holy Longing," you admit that Christianity still struggles to fully celebrate sexual passion. You talk about it failure to celebrate healthy sexuality and how we have to be both passionate and chaste in our relationships with God. She says there's a much healthier robust expression of sexuality in Judaism where people are responsible for their sex lives.Costello: We've never had anywhere in the church or the churches, a healthy, robust, real spirituality and sexually thoughts. But neither is anybody else. I don't see a healthy sexual ethos. It's not in secular culture. Not in Chinese or communist culture, or Buddhist cultures and so on.
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