Fr. Robert Barron comments on the Church’s counter-cultural teachings on marriage and sexuality showing how they point to God’s love for the world. The Catholic philosophy of sex differs from both Puritanism, a blanket repression of sexual desire, and the “Playboy” mentality, which is all about self-indulgence.
His commentary evokes many of the same ideas in Christopher West’s new book, Fill These Hearts: God, Sex, and the Universal Longing—which I’m giving away here—and those in Pope John Paul’s magnificent “theology of the body.”