tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post3248215631104607925..comments2024-03-14T09:31:24.792-04:00Comments on TORONTO CATHOLIC WITNESS: Christopher West: Theology of the Body distorter claims that the most pure St. Joseph had "erotic desires of youth"! Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-62870834955695922292018-02-14T12:34:59.078-05:002018-02-14T12:34:59.078-05:00Alex, you are not addressing the issues at hand. S...Alex, you are not addressing the issues at hand. St Joseph did not desire the Blessed Virgin sexually, nor other women with "erotic desires of youth". He was perfectly chaste. Erotic desire are sins, so I can say he was chaste, because the Church says so in receiving a singular gift to chastity. West is perverting the teachings of the late Pope in removing St. Joseph's perfect Baronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-35806381866365947372018-02-14T11:13:51.546-05:002018-02-14T11:13:51.546-05:00Being chaste doesn't mean not feeling any desi...Being chaste doesn't mean not feeling any desire. St. Joseph was pure and chaste, and he did feel desire simply because he was a human being. John Paul II in his theology of the body does make a clear distinction between desire and concupiscence (or lust). You cannot live or teach chastity if you throw away the desire. This will only lead to sexual explosion. St. Joseph was chaste because he Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16294572891447197894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-82579838929309901592015-03-28T22:15:46.167-04:002015-03-28T22:15:46.167-04:00theology of the body = theology of the BAWDY.
th...theology of the body = theology of the BAWDY. <br /><br />theology of the body = a desperate attempt by the contemporary Church to make peace with the sexual revolution by creating more, rather than less, preoccupation with sex. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02959404760859071433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-48961622737667645352015-03-27T13:17:13.946-04:002015-03-27T13:17:13.946-04:00Dangerous clowns like Mr West will come and go and...Dangerous clowns like Mr West will come and go and speak as they please because no Bishop has the courage - or indeed the sensus Catholicus - to shut him up.<br /><br />While I found his words utterly infantile as well as repugnant I am glad you brought this to our attention.<br /><br />With every good wish for the coming Easter Season...Aged parenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217229048176272954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-80380967197469749312015-03-26T21:07:55.299-04:002015-03-26T21:07:55.299-04:00The Church teaches that St. Joseph was perfectly c...The Church teaches that St. Joseph was perfectly chaste, receiving a singular gift to chastity. St. Francis and St.Clare though they did not have carnal relations, had a far greater love between each other than that of married couples. The simple reason being that with carnality removed they could see Christ far more clearly in each other. Hence their love of hearts was on a much higher love thanBaronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265555388172261643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-59288103899925385602015-03-26T20:31:25.920-04:002015-03-26T20:31:25.920-04:00Hmm, I haven't thought about this very much, b...Hmm, I haven't thought about this very much, but it's true that St. Joseph was given a special grace in his marriage. It's true that in the natural order of things a marriage without intimate relations doesn't work. I do know of a good Catholic couple who entered marriage intended not to include marital relations. It was between a devoutly Catholic handicapped man and a woman Lawrence and Susan Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11526624376697144718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9024178972531580240.post-51553661860701795432015-03-26T15:58:24.450-04:002015-03-26T15:58:24.450-04:00The angel that appeared to our dear and Holy examp...The angel that appeared to our dear and Holy example of Fatherhood and Spousal love would have told St. Joseph much. Many things that he may not have understood but enough that he would have understood everything that he needed to. He understood that the womb of Mary was the new Tabernacle of the Most High. As he was not a Levite priest he was not fit to enter that tabernacle, the Holy of Holies Vox Cantorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16987049370515084083noreply@blogger.com