What’s the deal with indulgences and scapulars, How do I live celibacy after divorce, Are beauty exercises vain? | ACW332
Ask Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute
4.9 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Questions answered this episode:
- Can indulgences and scapulars make sense through the lens of Theology of the Body?
- How can I embrace lifelong celibacy after my wife left me?
- Are appearance-focused exercises inherently vain or can they be good?
Resources
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Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses
God Is Beauty Book
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello everybody. This is Juan, producer of the podcast. I just wanted to give you a heads-up. |
| 0:04.6 | We are changing our podcast host, so you will stop seeing new episode updates in the Ask Christopher |
| 0:09.3 | West.com website. The podcast will still be available on major streaming platforms, but no longer |
| 0:14.7 | on the website. So if you want to submit a question, just go to the show notes and you will |
| 0:18.8 | find a link there to do so. God bless. |
| 0:26.4 | From the Theology of the Body Institute, this is the Ask Christopher West podcast. |
| 0:38.7 | Well, hey everybody. |
| 0:40.2 | Hi, podcast listeners. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to another episode with Wendy West and her husband. |
| 0:51.5 | My husband is Christopher West, to whom you've directed some questions, and I'm here to read them. Well, I think we can safely say they've directed them to both of us. |
| 0:55.6 | The name of the show. |
| 0:57.5 | The name of the show. |
| 0:57.9 | But hold on. |
| 0:58.7 | Is Ask Christopher West. |
| 1:00.3 | Who is the star of the show? |
| 1:03.9 | Listen. |
| 1:04.7 | I mean, Jesus. |
| 1:05.7 | Let us pray and hope. |
| 1:06.7 | Jesus is the star of the show. |
| 1:08.2 | But, Wendy, I travel the world, as you know, and I get to hear people's feedback, and it's pretty unanimous. You know what? Here's the way it goes. Well, let me just fill in the blankets. I'm going to say something here, okay? But it's unanimous that you're the star of the show. This is how it goes. People like you. My husband stands in front of people and says, is Wendy the star of the show? And he's smiling and nodding. |
| 1:31.1 | And people say, yes. Is that |
| 1:33.2 | the way you find out, like, legitimate |
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