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Designed for use in a classroom, youth group, or retreat setting, the Sex and the Teenager: Choices and Decisions program allows students to feel comfortable talking about and reflecting on sensitive questions connected with their sexual maturing. Rooted in Judeo-Christian and Catholic Church moral teaching, the program has a clear, straightforward goal: to encourage teens to make their own decisions...

For nearly twenty years, Sex and the Teenager: Choices and Decisions has been an extremely successful program for promoting abstinence and chastity among teenagers. Designed for use in a classroom, youth group, or retreat setting and rooted in Judeo-Christian and Catholic Church moral teaching, the program has a clear, straightforward goal: to encourage teens to say "No" to premarital sexual...

The pressure on teens to be sexually active only increases and multiples as the years go on. Today, teens are under enormous pressure to be sexually active. Popular culture tells them that uncommitted responsible sex is possible. Television, movies, and the Internet anxious to depict "reality" find themselves promoting as perverse of sexual behavior imaginable. More than ever, teens continue...

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: General Interest (Third Place). Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Family Life (Second Place). Are you looking for the right words—and a boost of confidence—to build trust, reduce shame, and have an ongoing and compassionate conversation with your teen about...

Winner of a third-place award in the morality, ethics, Christology, Mariology, and redemption category from the Catholic Media Association. Are sexuality and spirituality opposed to each other? To anyone who has struggled to align their sexual desires with the call to be holy these might seem in opposition, but they don’t have to be. Sex and the Spiritual Life will...

Winner of a 2026 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Family Life (Honorable Mention). Sex in marriage can be beautiful—but also new, confusing, awkward, and even frustrating. How do you talk openly about lovemaking without feeling embarrassed? How do you ask for what you need? What if something feels off, or worse—what if it hurts? For many couples,...

Justin Fatica, renowned Catholic evangelist, author, and focus of the HBO documentary Hard as Nails, offers a book of wisdom for teens that presents his acclaimed eight stages to a God-centered life in Win it All: The Way to Heaven for Catholic Teens. Known across the United States for his fierce, emotive, and attention-grabbing stage presence, Justin Fatica contradicts the...

Winner of a third-place award in the healing and self-help category from the Catholic Media Association. We all have sexual wounds—some caused by over-sexualized culture, some by our personal choices, and some through the actions of others. Have you struggled with wounds from sexual abuse and molestation, pornography use, infidelity, divorce, sexual identity confusion, genophobia, or unwanted sexual compulsions? In...

Winner of a second-place award in the spirituality category from the Association of Catholic Publishers. One of the most difficult challenges we may face as parents is to have that first “talk” with our kids. You know the one—discussing their changing bodies and sex for the first time. When do we begin? Where do we start? How do we do...

February 14 is a greeting card holiday of "love" associated with a Christian saint, St. Valentine. How this connection was ever made is the subject of many questionable tales and lore.First of all, there are many St. Valentines and two are mentioned as being martyred for their faith on this date. One Valentine died in Rome, the other about sixty...

The life of teenagers is filled with choices. In the sumer time, some choices are as simple as whether they will spend the day at the beach or at a friend's house. Other choices are more difficult. Teens who you will be ready to greet in your classroom in the next few weeks may have been faced with or will...