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+ JMJ For me, the lovey touchy feely -ness of the Theology of the Body has always caused the hair to standup on the back of my neck. So, perhaps it is my confirmation bias, but I was glad to see this article on Rorate-Caeli. I haven't read the whole article - but this section caught my attention: iii) Another problem is that of the goal(s) of marriage. Since the Pope’s marital and sexual ethics are an ethics of love, spousal love becomes the unique goal of marriage and sexuality. This however excludes the goal to which marriage and sexuality have been oriented by the Creator, namely procreation. In scholastic terms the finis operantis (the goal of the worker) ousts, or at least casts into shade, the finis operis (the goal of the work). The Pope to be accordingly described the conjugal act essentially as an act of love ‘with the possibility... of procreation’ (Person and Community ch. 19).   Hereby TOB comes into conflict with Church teaching concerning the order of the ends o...

+ JMJ Update 1 at bottom of post. I found the following waiting for me when I opened my email on Oct 16th. Gullible has left a new comment on your post " Angelus Press Conference, Fr. Sean Kilcawley and a... ": https://sspx.org/en/lefebvre- church-priesthood-and-indult Archbishop Lefebvre comments on Theology of the Body starting at the paragraph "You may have noticed this in the pope's Wednesday conferences" I have a feeling you won't post it. God Bless Gullible ... well Gullible, I don't know why you felt that I wouldn't post the section of TOB (see whole talk below) ... but for convenience, I have added below the sections on TOB.  Interestingly, TOB is so vague and confusing that it spawned a cottage industry of interpreters and 'consultants'.  Just like the US tax laws. I've even had one Modern Catholic tell me that the Church (Catholic) needed this 'teaching for this age'.  Well, I'm pret...