Volume 24, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2004
Aline H. Kalbian
Pages 55-69
DOI: 10.5840/jsce20042425
Integrity in Catholic Sexual Ethics
TOTALITY AND COMPLEMENTARITY ARE PROMINENT TERMS IN CATHOLIC discussions of sexuality and gender. In this essay I explore these terms as they relate to the concept of integrity. I argue that although these terms were originally intended to describe the importance of physical integrity or wholeness, recent moves toward a more personalistic sexual ethic have rendered them problematic. More precisely, although these two terms appear to have integrity as their goal, uncertainty about the object of integrity results in fragmentation.