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Theology of the body

There is no doubt that in the matter of sex, one of the strongest clashes between the Church and the world occurs. All of the Church’s teachings may seem like a long list of arbitrary rules, meant only to limit our pleasure and deprive us of the best things in life. But in reality, what lies behind all these rules is a beautiful vision of sex and the body, which the ‘rules’ only pretend to protect.

We need to recover the original meaning of the body in order to rediscover the meaning of our life, and thus be able to offer it as a gift of love.

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  • The original meaning of the body.
  • Darkening of the original meaning and redemption in Christ.
  • Application to relevant topics: marriage, contraception, attraction to the same sex, and others.
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Fr. Joseph Piper

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Father Joseph Piper is a priest of the Saint John Society.
He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, and is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Pastoral Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Rome), through Sacred Heart Major Seminary (Detroit).
Born in Seattle, Washington, he spent two years as a missionary in Argentina, where he studied Philosophy at the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino (Buenos Aires), while missionizing in the interior of the country.
He currently lives in Washington, DC, where he works as a chaplain at the American University.

The Truth has been accepted in the world not because of its character as a system, nor because of books, nor because of argumentation, nor because of the temporal power that supported it, but because of the personal influence of those who testified, being at the same time teachers and models.

John Henry Newman

Oxford University Sermons, V

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