In his newest book, “Totality,” Brendan Lyons imagines a dystopian future where people are given the opportunity to receive a brand new, genetically modified, “perfect” body. This process, called a “switchover” takes place by implanting the person’s brain into the new body.
Sauk Centre will play host to this special evening of music, art and presentations from author and speaker Christopher West, who is president of the Theology of the Body Institute, and singer Mike Mangione.
The picture book “Jesus Had a Body Like Me: A Theology of the Body for Babies and Little Ones” is aimed not just at children but at those who read to them.
The theology of the body is not just suited to high school classrooms. Even 4-year-olds should have the opportunity to learn about St. John Paul II’s teaching on life, love and human sexuality — at least in part.
Mary Haseltine’s debut book titled “Made for This: The Catholic Mom’s Guide to Birth,” draws on St. John Paul II’s theology of the body to show that childbirth is an essential part of who God created women to be, body and soul.
When it was issued, the chairmen of two U.S. Catholic bishops’ committees said that treating “‘a student’s gender identity as the student’s sex,'” as the directive calls for, “is deeply disturbing.”
