Pope: The Body is the Place Where the Spirit Can Live. "Only when he recognizes the originator of love who gave him life, can man accept himself" and be "reconciled with nature and with the world." …More
Pope: The Body is the Place Where the Spirit Can Live.
"Only when he recognizes the originator of love who gave him life, can man accept himself" and be "reconciled with nature and with the world." This was the reflection offered this morning by Benedict XVI during a meeting with members of the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Study on Marriage and the Family. In his address, the Pope said that "the power of sin cannot destroy the original language of the body," which "carries in itself a filial significance". "The real charm of sexuality, therefore, finds its roots in the "universe of the other person and in the "we" that is born in union", in the path of love opened by God." In this light, the Pope said, we better understand that "the virtue of ch ...
"Only when he recognizes the originator of love who gave him life, can man accept himself" and be "reconciled with nature and with the world." This was the reflection offered this morning by Benedict XVI during a meeting with members of the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Study on Marriage and the Family. In his address, the Pope said that "the power of sin cannot destroy the original language of the body," which "carries in itself a filial significance". "The real charm of sexuality, therefore, finds its roots in the "universe of the other person and in the "we" that is born in union", in the path of love opened by God." In this light, the Pope said, we better understand that "the virtue of ch ...