It totally involves the personality in physical, affective and spiritual life and is necessarily reflected in social relations. The energy of sexuality is too precious for a person not to consider it a value that involves the self and one's destiny. The virtue capable of guiding the living current of love toward self-giving is called chastity. This presupposes that the person has learnt how to accept other people, to relate with them, while respecting their dignity in diversity. The chaste person is not self-centred, not involved in selfish relationships with other people.
Chastity makes the personality harmonious.
It matures it and fills it with inner peace. Anyone who may think that the church is estranging herself in this area from the climate of the times, or has been overtaken by a desire to be cloistered far from society ought to think again. Precisely in order to restore society to health and once more propose values of hope and life, many groups of young people, associations and movements, are asking the church to speak out for the dignity of the person, the dignity of women and the family, through a complete human and rich way of seeing sexuality. This is the first step towards a healthier future that is nonviolent and free from the exploitation of youth. Moreover, in recent years, the Pontifical Council has received many letters and appeals to take a stand with regard to erroneous and harmful information that circulates in different countries, and to offer assistance to families on this subject.