At Slate, Michael Sean Winters writes about the controversy among Catholics aroused by Christopher West, his Theology of the Body Institute, and his book, Good News About Sex & Marriage:
It is not every day that you find conservative Catholic theologians arguing about the moral propriety of anal sex. But in an exchange of articles being published on the Knights of Columbus’ Web site “Headline Bistro,” sodomy has become a hot topic. It’s part of a larger discussion about the work of Christopher West, a Catholic layman who has made a career out of propagating his interpretation of Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body,” a series of speeches from 1979 through 1984. In them, the late pope tried to reconcile contemporary insights into human sexuality with broader theological anthropology and to alter the image of the church as the source of finger-wagging condemnations of sex, presenting instead a view of sexual relations that was at once positive, orthodox, and modern.
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