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Don’t Miss Out on the Whole Point of the Feast of the Ascension: It’s the Highest Celebration of the Human Body Possible!
Ascension Thursday – today! – is one of the most gloriously hopeful feasts on the Church’s liturgical calendar. And 10 days from now, we’ll celebrate Pentecost. One cannot be understood without the other and neither can be understood unless we have a...
A Quarter-Century Celebration of Braveheart
Stunned. Overwhelmed. Speechless. As the credits rolled, so did the tears. My fiancée (I had just proposed two weeks earlier) and I were the last to leave the theater and didn’t do so until we were practically kicked out. It’s hard to believe it’s been a quarter...
Poland, Fatima and the Blood of John Paul II
I bet, like me, you’ve kinda rolled your eyes whenever you’ve read the saints talking about what “wretched sinners” they were. Yea, sure you were, Mother Teresa … whatever!
Mother’s Day: The Celebration Behind the Celebration
I bet, like me, you’ve kinda rolled your eyes whenever you’ve read the saints talking about what “wretched sinners” they were. Yea, sure you were, Mother Teresa … whatever!
How to Discover the Life You Were Made For
[David Clayton is provost for Pontifex University, which offers a Master of Arts Degree in Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization in partnership with Theology of the Body Institute. David will be a featured speaker at the May 8-10 Theology of the Body Virtual...
Sinners and Saints Alike Need Divine Mercy
I bet, like me, you’ve kinda rolled your eyes whenever you’ve read the saints talking about what “wretched sinners” they were. Yea, sure you were, Mother Teresa … whatever!
Fulton Sheen and the “Cor” of the New Evangelization: Divine Mercy
You know you have discovered a prophet when you hear or read something from a great preacher and it speaks not only to the heart of today’s problems but also offers solutions that remedy them at the heart as well. Two of the greatest prophets of the last century are...
How to Experience the Eros of Easter Through the Cry of the Song of Songs
Spring is springing. Bees are buzzing. Flowers are blooming. All of creation is proclaiming the message of Easter – new life! If God is speaking to us through the natural world, then it’s clear that one of his favorite subjects, especially this time of year, is mating...
Making a Gift of Ourselves During the Pandemic
During this time of sheltering and quarantines, the TOBI staff remains hard at work from our homes continuing the mission to share with you St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. All of us by now know someone who has been affected by COVID-19, and we’ve been praying...
Unity-in-Difference as Challenge and Transformation
In our “cancel culture” we experience the consequences of difference as negative. Cancel culture is a space in which I can remove not only things with which I disagree, but the people behind those things. It is not discernment, but fundamental rejection of another....
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