I would like to express my thanks to God and to everyone who arranges an occasion like this for RCIA participants. It is not an entitlement that we can get together like this. It is a gift from God.[....]

I heard of it again just recently. An unmarried person decided not to attend her local parish seminar on John Paul II’s theology of the body (TOB) because she thought it didn’t apply to her. I hear this often – “What does the TOB have to do with me, I’m not married?” The theology of the body applies, quite literally, to every-body. [....]