Why is St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body so important at this moment in history?

• When one of the most popular websites offers over fifty gender options to choose from in filling out a personal profile…
• When idealized and hyper-eroticized images of the human body have become our cultural wallpaper and hardcore pornography our main reference point for understanding sex…
• When governments institutionalize gender confusion by insisting the sexual difference has no real meaning in marriage and family life…
• And when our Christian parents, teachers, pastors, and confessors are largely unable to respond to these challenges in any compelling way for lack of proper formation themselves…

We are desperately in need of the good news St. John Paul II proclaimed in his Theology of the Body. And we are also in need of presentations like this one that make his astounding vision of human life, love, and sexuality accessible to all.