Today’s contribution to the Register’s Theology of the Body Symposium comes from Fr. Jose Granados:

Is it possible to believe in love?

To our culture, love seems funny, interesting, desirable, maybe necessary … but certainly not trustworthy. It does not seem to be solid and lasting enough so that one can build one’s entire life on it.

Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body is precisely an attempt to show that we can believe in love (1 John 4:16), that love is strong enough to provide an explanation for the whole of our life: our origin, our identity and our destiny.

Three points are crucial to understand John Paul II’s vision.

Read more on those three points. Also check out Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II’s Theology of the Body which Fr. Granados co-authored with Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.