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Pope John Paul II teaches us how knowing the body matters answers everybody’s search for meaning in his Theology of the Body.
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WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?
Between 1979 and 1984, Pope St. John Paul II delivered a series of Wednesday audiences that eventually became known as the Theology of the Body (TOB). This profound teaching offered what St. John Paul called an “adequate anthropology”—an examination of what it means to be human, made in God’s image and likeness, and how that reality is made visible through the human body, giving a Sacramental View of Reality.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines dignity as “the quality or state of being worthy of honor or respect.” We might also think of it as the minimum amount of respect owed to something. We intuitively know that not all things have the same degree of dignity. A book has a little more dignity than a brick because books convey ideas, but both of these inanimate objects have less inherent dignity than an animal which has life.
Roger Staubach’s Hail Mary Pass—50 Years Later!
As someone enthralled by Pope St. John Paul’s Theology of the Body, I love the Solemnity of the Annunciation, the day where the words of the “Hail Mary” prayer were first spoken by the Angel Gabriel (see Luke 1:26) to Mary. This was the moment when the Word became...
Faces and Voices
Our bodies deserve respect. Why should we be worried of AI “deepfakes” (highly realistic looking but fraudulent videos) mimicking our voices and names? Because they violate the truth of our bodies. This is what Pope Leo means when he writes, “Faces and voices are sacred… Safeguarding faces and voices ultimately means safeguarding ourselves.” In other words, as we say at TOBET, the body matters!