How Theology of the Body Transforms Marital Intimacy

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

There is a particular kind of quiet shame that can settle into a Catholic marriage — not the loud, obvious kind, but the ambient sort. The kind that makes a husband hesitate before reaching for his wife’s hand, or makes a wife wonder whether wanting to be wanted is somehow theologically suspicious. We absorb messages from a culture that treats the body as a commodity and from certain strands of religious formation that treat it as a liability. And caught between those two poles, many couples arrive at the bedroom with more confusion than they bargained for.

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How Theology of the Body Transforms Marital Intimacy