His father occasionally had a beer, but Marquette University senior Andrew Schueller, 22, was otherwise not raised around alcohol. College changed that.

“It was not until college that I really was exposed to alcohol, seeing my peers wanting to go out and coming back heavily under the influence,” Schueller said, in an e-mail interview with MyFaith. “I guess being raised Catholic, I knew it was wrong for me to drink before 21, so I tried to avoid it.”

His night job on the Marquette campus as a shuttle van driver also helped. When Schueller became a resident assistant, he said he had to deal with others’ abuse of alcohol and learned of the associated dangers.

“Being on a college campus, especially as a resident assistant, I see examples of residents who have (drunk) too much that they have passed out and sometimes even needed to be hospitalized,” Schueller said.

He’s also seen how peers regret some of their under-the-influence actions.

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Sex. We see it glamorized in movies, trivialized on TV, talked about by friends and sometimes avoided all together by our parents. For many young people growing up in the Catholic Church, the sentence “Don’t do it before you’re married” may be well known, even though the reasons behind it are not as clear-cut. However, the Catholic Church does have valuable reasons as to why remaining sexually pure before marriage is not only healthy and normal, but logical as well.

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