Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding and defending

your Catholic faith.

I'm Sy Kelly at your host and today we're very special opportunity to get to talk with

Dr. Angela Franks, who is a professor of theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston and

a well-known speaker and author as a matter of fact a speaker much in demand and we're

just delighted that she's out here in Southern California doing some speaking for us and for

some related apostles here Dr. Franks, thank you for being with us.

Thanks for having me.

You teach at a seminary.

That's right.

But you're known for theology of the body, all that kind of thing, how's that go over there

at the seminary?

Oh, they're very, they want that kind of material.

They recognize that the seminarians recognize that they're real cultural problems.

They feel a little bit inadequate to meet them and they know that they have to up their

game and so they're actually very eager to take those classes.

I hadn't thought of that, but that makes perfect sense.

If you're a priest, you're going to deal with every kind of question relating to the

body and there's a lot of them in these days and you'd better have something to come

back with.

OK, well, I want to talk with you about a phrase that I began to hear a few years ago.

The phrase is sex positivity and the way that it's presented, at least in my understanding,

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