‘To be chaste is to be whole’: Bishop Varden on a neglected virtue
Chastity is not a popular topic, but Bishop Erik Varden explains it is a more interesting and generous term than people realize
Chastity is not a popular topic — in the Catholic Church as much as in the wider culture.
But it’s the subject of a new book by a figure familiar to Pillar readers: Bishop Erik Varden, the spiritual writer, scholar, musician, beer aficionado, Trappist monk, and head of the Territorial Prelature of Trondheim in Norway.
