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us at to mystic institute.org. Thank you, Father Petrie, for your wonderful talks already.

I feel a little bit awkward as the philosopher speaking on theology of the body. That's already

awkward enough, but speaking after the theologian. But it's helped

me to focus on the sense in which I think that philosophy really does support theology of the

body. And I'll just mention this little autobiographical detail, because I think I'm a little

bit weird in this respect, in other respects too, but in this respect, I'm a little bit weird in this respect, in other respects

too, but in this respect, I'm a little bit weird. So I'm a convert to Catholicism, and I'm a

convert to Christianity. I became a Christian in college, and then about 10 years later, I was

received in the Catholic Church. But I believed Catholic teaching on contraception before I was a Catholic

for philosophical reasons. It just seemed right to me. That's rare. But it is a natural law

position. And I think that's an important thing for us to keep in mind, even as we're trying to

appreciate an explicitly Christian attempt to share those truths.

So I'm going to talk a little bit about philosophy today.

I think Father did a really excellent job of describing laying out the context and the content of theology of the body and even helping us to understand what kind of a teaching it is.

But let's acknowledge that it's a pretty strange kind of a teaching.

And it's been characterized in all sorts of different ways, right?

It's a biblical exegesis.

I think this is something that the Father Petrie

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