This Sunday Catholics celebrated the feast of the holy Trinity, three Persons in one God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – existing in an eternal exchange of love. From all eternity the Father makes himself a gift to the Son and the Son receives this gift and makes Himself a gift back to [...]

Since Congress is considering repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell this week – possibly by Thursday – I thought this was a good subject for today’s TOB Tuesday post. In a column for Catholic Exchange’s Theology of the Body Channel, Robert Colquhoun explains the Church’s teaching on homosexuality while respecting the sensitivities of those afflicted [...]

Wow, I totally missed this one! In two previous TOB Tuesday posts last year (!!) I pointed out a 3 part series of columns by Dale O’Leary at Catholic Exchange answering the challenge posed to traditional sexual morality by the “Sexual Revolutionaries” of the last thirty years. After coming across these posts in [...]

Relying on the same disposition of the personal subject, thanks to which man fully finds himself through a sincere gift of self (Gaudium et Spes, 24:3), man (male and female) is able to choose the personal gift of self to another person in the conjugal covenant, in which they become “one flesh,” and he [...]

As a single person myself, I really enjoyed this column from Theology of the Body speaker Katrina Zeno on being single in a “couple’s world”

Sex dominates movies, teen magazines, television sit-coms, romance novels, and pop music. A statistic taken from the Center for Population Options and quoted by CareNet in a fund-raising letter I received [...]

Just a short quote to (hopefully) inspire you on this TOB Tuesday, from Carl Anderson’s book Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II’s Theology of the Body:
The human person differs from the other animals because his very existence is a response to a call to love, a call that evokes wonder in his heart [...]

Here’s a good video with Christopher West explaining the Theology of the Body for Pure Passion TV

Christopher West, Theology of the Body, Pt 1 S2E9 from Pure Passion on Vimeo.
Click here for part II. I’m not exactly sure what Pure Passion is, but I don’t think it’s Catholic – which is pretty awesome. [...]

As Catholics we profess to believe in:
the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that
“On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body.” It is very commonly accepted [...]

As the season of Lent comes to a close and we get set for the “big day” of fasting this Friday, TOB expert Christopher West offers this beautiful explanation of how this fast can prepare us for the great feast of Easter:
Fasting allows us to feel our hunger. And feeling our physical hunger can, if [...]

While I do not agree that 5 year olds need to learn about homosexuality or masturbation and other such things, I also do not think it’s harmful to ground our children, even from a young age, in a proper understanding of human sexuality – what our bodies are made for, why we are created as [...]