I caught a few minutes of Religion and Ethics Newsweekly this morning on PBS and Fr. Richard McBrien of Notre Dame was on and said that Pope John Paul II’s “Achilles heel” was human sexuality. You have got to think Fr. McBrien is selective in his readings of the Holy Father. Evangelium Vitae, the Theology of the Body, Love and Responsibility. I don’t think his teaching or grasp on the importance of was the problem…
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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