Recently I listened to a talk given at a Franciscan retreat center. I felt right at home among the colorful, sprightly paintings of St. Francis
Love. Hate. Pride. Fifty years ago, these words suggested different concepts than today. Love was a fuzzy, feel-good word, accompanying cartoons of cute cherubs holding
St. Pope John Paul II gave 129 addresses at general audiences from 1979 to 1984, focused on marriage, family, and human sexuality. Biographer George Weigel
My siblings and I were blessed to attend Catholic schools for most of our education. At one point, though, my father found it necessary to
For those who have read my previous articles, you might recall that here in Italy I began learning to drive for the second time since
Did you know that St. Joseph is a uniquely good intercessor when NFP is hard? In the second portion of his book, Consecration to St.
Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is practically synonymous with the Church’s teaching on chastity nowadays, but the theological meaning of our bodies
I recently participated in a training course for the International Federation for Family Development, where families met from all over Europe and a couple from
Richard Morgan’s novel Altered Carbon might have been more interesting if it had known what to do with its Catholic characters. It takes place in
The sex scandals in the Church will not be completely and thoroughly dealt with until the rampant infidelity to Catholic doctrine throughout all of the
The Disease of What’s Best for Me There is a disease rampant in our world today. A disease called “What’s Best for Me.” Entertainment programs
Molly McCully Brown‘s The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded is a magnificent collection of poems, depicting the experiences of profoundly disabled persons who, shunned
As Roger Scruton says, “Sex is either consecration or desecration, with no neutral territory in between.” That’s essentially the thesis of Terrence Malick’s recent trilogy
When I began my new job as a youth minister last year, I didn’t have a whole lot of experience with youth ministry. I did
theology of the body I have been waiting impatiently for the “theological timebomb set to go off.” This was George Weigel’s assessment of The Theology
theology of the body 1979 was an exciting year. My wife was pregnant most of that year with our third child. This was not an
Even with its interest in the spiritual realm, William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist is, as befits a story about possession, still very much concerned with
This month marks the first anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’. Upon reading it, I was struck by certain parallels of
Although I have not really studied Theology of the Body written by Pope John Paul II in 1984, one single paragraph, quoted in our Catholic paper decades
I was a nerd, not a jock, a little flabby but not obese, interested in the brain more than the body, catching my breath after
If the body is gift, what kind of gift does a person give who is giving his or her body? God’s word answers this question,
St. John Paul II realized that the term “theology of the body” in his work, Theology of the Body,1 was a “working term”2 and that
