https://vitaesacra.com/tags/spousal-meaning-of-the-body/Recent content in Spousal-Meaning-of-the-Body on Vitae Sacra — Catholic Marriage, Intimacy & WellnessHugoen-usSat, 16 May 2026 18:31:21 +0200https://vitaesacra.com/marriage-and-faith/spousal-meaning-of-the-body-jpii/Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vitaesacra.com/marriage-and-faith/spousal-meaning-of-the-body-jpii/<p>You can be married for years and still not know what your body is for. Not biologically — most Catholic couples have that part down. But theologically: why does the body matter? Why is physical intimacy not just permitted but, in the Catholic vision, sacred? And why does John Paul II insist, across 129 dense catechetical addresses, that the body has a meaning that most of us have never been taught to read?</p>