Teaching Sexuality on the Catholics & Cultures Website: A Refreshing Turn toward the Longue Durée

I present a close reading of the Catholics & Cultures (C&C) website’s treatment sexuality-related issues and discuss this material in relation to debates about how teach sexuality religious studies theology classrooms. The C&C website occasionally intermittently uses typical “contemporary issues” approach that considers legal legislative decisions government policies. In contrast, country profiles consistently situate processes like nation building, urbanization, lay Catholics’ growing authority. My interpretation highlights site’s decision emphasize longue durée, long-term deep structural driving cultural changes. Certainly, advocates including curricula would applaud for explicitly acknowledging attitudes same-sex marriage, use new reproductive technologies, Church’s sexual abuse crisis, pre-marital reproduction. site also offers refreshing alternative commonplace ways enacting pedagogy sexuality.