When you can’t receive your parents’ advice, Male climax outside question, & Christ the Bridegroom for non-consecrated Christians | ACW358
Ask Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute
4.9 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Questions answered this episode:
- I admire my Catholic family, but I struggle to receive advice from my parents. I’m academically gifted and study philosophy, theology, and psychology of relationships, while they don’t share my passion for ideas. When they give advice, I often think, “I’ve already considered that,” or, “There’s a deeper understanding.” I know their long marriage brings wisdom, but I don’t always appreciate it. What insight can you offer from your own experience about respecting and learning from parental wisdom in relationships?
- Can male climax occur outside the womb if the couple intends to climax in the womb immediately afterward? I’m curious about how this aligns with Theology of the Body and marital intimacy.
- I’m writing about Christ as bridegroom in every Christian’s life. I understand it in religious or consecrated life, but how does it apply to married people? Are there resources, including John Paul II, that discuss this? How should non-consecrated Christians live out this reality in prayer and daily life?
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| 0:00.0 | From the Theology of the Body Institute, this is the Ask Christopher West podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | Hi, podcast listeners. |
| 0:18.3 | Hey, everybody. I have some movie trivia for you. |
| 0:22.3 | All right. |
| 0:23.7 | From what movie does this line come? |
| 0:27.6 | Okay. |
| 0:28.3 | You're going the wrong way! |
| 0:34.7 | My students should know it because I show this clip at the T-O-B-1 course. |
| 0:40.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.9 | From planes, trains, and automobiles, of course. |
| 0:43.9 | Plains, and automobiles. |
| 0:45.2 | What year did that movie come out? |
| 0:46.9 | Oh, goodness. |
| 0:48.4 | 87? |
| 0:49.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:50.5 | Late 80s. |
| 0:51.9 | If you don't know it, it's one of those kind of classic 80s comedies that, in my humble |
| 0:59.3 | opinion, everybody should know about. |
| 1:05.1 | Because of how brilliantly John Candy and Steve Martin fulfill their roles as these two travelers who get stuck trying to get home together. |
| 1:16.9 | And it's just a comedy of errors. |
| 1:18.8 | And it's really fun. |
| 1:19.7 | And in the end, very touching. |
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