Events of recent memory have left my head spinning in disbelief—“Caitlyn,†same-sex so-called “marriage,†three women “marrying†in South America, and, yes, “gay Catholics†and “chaste gay couples.†With me, you may wonder how all this has emerged in a short few decades of social upheaval. I may have an answer: Society has constructed an unreal cultural landscape in which things that are not sexuality are passed off as sexuality. Even a majority of Catholics are, perhaps unwittingly, swallowing this unreality, hook, line, and sinker.The fabric of this false landscape is language—language that frames everyone and everything in a...
