Preparing to Teach TOB to Protestants, Healing a Marriage After Hidden Porn Use, Can Couples Have Sex During a Woman’s Period | ACW330
Ask Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute
4.9 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Questions answered this episode:
- I work for a small Christian university... how can I prepare to teach Theology of the Body to a Protestant audience when JP2's writings feel dense and I'm limited in time and resources?
- After discovering my husband’s hidden struggles with pornography and masturbation, how can I walk with him toward a true relationship with Christ while dealing with my own feelings of betrayal?
- I’m about to get married and just found out I’ll have my period on my honeymoon. Is it OK for Catholic couples to have sex during menstruation?
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John Paul II’s Letter to Artists
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| 0:00.0 | From Theology of the Body Institute, this is the Ask Christopher West podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, podcast listeners. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us on another episode. |
| 0:22.4 | It is a beautiful spring day here in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:25.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.5 | The buds are budding. |
| 0:28.7 | The leaves on the trees. |
| 0:30.7 | I say what? |
| 0:31.3 | There may be 80% popped. |
| 0:34.6 | And it's getting all green and it just makes you feel good inside, doesn't it? It sure does. It does. Wendy is |
| 0:40.7 | not a winter lover. That's true. It's a hard go sometimes. But you did pretty well this winter, |
| 0:47.5 | I must say, Wendy. Thank you. I mean, yeah, thank the Lord. Yeah, but I'm always happy for you, |
| 0:53.5 | especially when spring comes. |
| 0:55.1 | So here we are. |
| 0:56.4 | And we are all, of course, living with the news of Pope Francis's passing. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.6 | It came as a bit of a surprise. |
| 1:05.5 | It did. Yeah. |
| 1:06.6 | And yet to think back on it now, you know, when he was in the hospital this winter, there was that feeling of every day, sort of wondering, is he going to make it? |
| 1:17.6 | And I feel the Lord's, like, generosity in giving him just such a beautiful Easter. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.5 | Like, what a gift. He had a real Easter as Easter. Yeah. Like, what a gift! |
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