Show Notes
Tony Percy reflects on the theology of the body. Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body develops this through the experiences of solitude, unity, nakedness and original sin, helping us understand the body as symbolic, spousal, beautiful and free, yet wounded and redeemed
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