The Elevator Pitch Part 3 “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it.” (St….
The Elevator Pitch Part 2 In the last post, we began building our elevator pitch about theology of the body. An elevator pitch has to be short enough to deliver in the space of an elevator ride; let’s call it two minutes. And in that two minutes, the pitch has to engage the other person,…
With this post, we’ll start to “drill down” to what theology of the body really means. It’s great news, like cold water to a thirsty soul, so we need to know how to share that excitement and vision with others. In this post, and for the next few weeks, I’ll deliver simple bullet points that…
Lately, I feel like a tiny rowboat out on a choppy sea. Wave after wave is coming at me. If you’ve been watching the headlines, you know what I’m talking about. I find myself constantly thinking, “Now I’ve seen everything; it can’t get any worse than this!” And then it does. As long as I’m…
Laudato Sí – part 3. In this third and final installment, the political aspects of Laudato Sí will be discussed in terms of classic Catholic social principles. It is impossible to get a balanced view of the Pope’s encyclical Laudato Sí from the secular press. They have dubbed it the “climate change encyclical”1 even though…
Laudato Sí, part 2 of a series We hear it every year on Holy Saturday, sitting in the dark of the church before the Light comes, a litany of all those things made in the Beginning through the Word: the swarms of living creatures, the winged birds, the creeping things and the beasts of the earth,…
At precisely a time when issues have arisen that we don’t quite know how to answer, Pope Francis has given us the new encyclical Laudato Sí. Providence couldn’t be any more pointed if there had been a divine Post-It note slapped on the front of it. Disregard for the integrity of the human body? The…
This blog is for telling a big secret. Something amazing that is profoundly good, true, beautiful and exactly what our hearts have been yearning for. The secret is the theology of the body. It was never meant to be secret, but it has still not been heard by the majority of our culture, although Saint John…
