Recommended for Grades 11-12

This forty-lesson book helps teens develop healthy relationships through a Catholic perspective, and it challenges students to search their inner selves to establish their own sense of sexual identity.

Understanding sexuality requires faith in a creative, loving God present to every dimension of our lives. This study stresses the importance of sequential and rational sexual decisions. These decisions are based upon affirmations that our bodies are the created gift of a loving God and that it is through love, not simply sexual experience, that one discovers the meaning of life and the presence of God.

The text consists of six parts: Rooting Human Sexuality in Faith; Sexual Awakening and Life’s Changes; Moral Thinking and Sexual Ethics; Moral Reasoning and Controversial Issues; Developing Healthy, Christian Relationships; and Sexuality and Spirituality. This resource includes many references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and is to be used in conjunction with the Student Exercise Book by the same title.