https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2014/12/11/big-change-at-discipleship-college/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2014/12/11/big-change-at-discipleship-college/comment-page-1/#comment-4674 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:15:29 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=9458#comment-4674 St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB) may provide a solid basis for solving the most pressing issues of human sexuality, both in families and in the Church as the family of God, including the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The TOB endorses neither radical patriarchy nor radical feminism, and provides a vision of marriage, and gender relations in general, that can be summarized as unity in diversity (“original unity of man and woman”), individuality in community (“communion of persons”) and equality in mutuality (“spousal meaning of the body”). The complementarity of man and woman is for reciprocity and mutual enrichment, not mutual exclusion.

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