Last week, we learned about that “universal longing” each of us have in our hearts, that “ache” for something more. Here’s the next part of our advance look into Christopher’s upcoming book FILL THESE HEARTS: God, Sex and the Universal Longing. Coming January 8th. Excerpted from CHAPTER 1 of FILL THESE HEARTS: The Greek philosopher Plato called… Read more
Here’s a special sneak peek into Christopher West’s new book FILL THESE HEARTS: God, Sex and the Universal Longing. Coming January 8th. #FTHbook Start the journey. CHAPTER 1: THE UNIVERSAL LONGING Everybody’s got a hungry heart. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN In 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to explore the galaxy. A golden record called… Read more
By CHRISTOPHER WEST I call it the “ache.” We all have it. We all feel it – a yearning, an interior burning that cries out from the depths of our being for infinite satisfaction. In a recent address to a cultural gathering in Rimini, Italy, Pope Benedict wrote about how we are often deceived by… Read more
Reflections on Humanae Vitae: Part 4 of 6 We continue our series commemorating the anniversary of Humanae Vitae. Pope Paul VI released this oh-so-controversial encyclical on July 25, 1968, re-affirming the constant teaching of the church on the immorality of contraception. To this day, it remains a “thorn in the side” of many. It was… Read more
Reflections on Humanae Vitae: Part 3 of 6 We continue our series commemorating the anniversary of Humanae Vitae. Pope Paul VI released this oh-so-controversial encyclical on July 25, 1968, re-affirming the constant teaching of the church on the immorality of contraception. To this day, it remains a “thorn in the side” of many. It was… Read more
“The light of the Gospel, which is a clear but at times painful light, can illumine human sexuality to its very depth in order to transform it and bring it to its full beauty. Here lies the great strength of Blessed John Paul II’s Theology of the Body … Christopher West … is a faithful and inspiring interpreter and communicator of this great Pope’s teaching, a teaching so urgently needed for an effective proclamation of the Gospel.”
