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‘What Priests Need to Save the Church’
So many books and articles have been written recently about the struggles we face in the Catholic Church today, and many of these focus on a reform that is needed in the priesthood, since as we know, without priests there is no Eucharist or absolution from sin. ...
Where Am I Falling Short In Love? — An Examination of Conscience
The following examination of conscience has been adapted from Christopher West’s book Love Is Patient but I’m Not: Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist (Wellspring Books/Beacon), which is based on Pope Francis’s reflections on Saint Paul’s famous hymn to love in...
Lent Is a Time of Courtship
Today is Ash Wednesday — the age-old tradition of crossing one’s forehead with ashes to remind ourselves that we are dust, and to dust we shall return. Ash Wednesday is also the beginning of the season of Lent, a time wherein we remember the Passion of Christ leading...
Encountering Saint Joseph
[NOTE: Jennifer Settle is Director of Programs for Theology of the Body Institute and co-author of Consecration to Jesus Through St. Joseph: An Integrated Look at the Holy Family. You can order the book for just $5 here.] I had no idea that St. Joseph would play such...
How to Communicate Complex Theology to a Mass Audience
If we want to be part of the New Evangelization then some of us are meant to be old-school evangelists too! On this episode of my podcast The Way of Beauty, Christopher West and I talk about his techniques for communicating complex theological concepts to a mass...
Sunday Funday and the Sabbath
Sunday, funday. For years now, the rise of brunch dollars, a day off, and the desire to find community in non-traditional ways has sparked this declaration of freedom. Social media posts rebrand Sunday as a time of fellowship and seven-dollar toast and mimosas,...
Undone: Freeing Your Feminine Heart from the Knots of Fear and Shame
[NOTE: This book features a chapter written by Jennifer Settle, director of programs for Theology of the Body Institute.] Last year for Christmas, my husband and I decided to replace our old swing set (which we affectionately named the death trap) with a brand new...
Porno-graphy and Theo-graphy
'When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman…’ (Gal 4:4). We’ve heard it a thousand times. It can go in one ear and out the other without sinking in. Do you know what this means? Woman is the earthly “opening” to heaven. Her body, her...
Two Common Questions About TOB and Dating
I get many emails asking me all kinds of questions about Theology of the Body. I’d like to answer 2 of the most common question about TOB and dating.
Three New Year’s Resolutions Every Catholic Should Make
In his Theology of the Body, Saint John Paul II spoke of three “infallible and indispensable” means for living out an authentic Christian spirituality (he was speaking specifically of the spirituality of married life, but it applies to one and all): a deepening life...
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