Homiletic & Pastoral Review: A Catholic physician talks to engaged couples

Dr. William G. White, a Catholic Physician specializing in Family Medicine, has a beautiful article in the March edition of H&PR. I commend it to you!

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The human person is both material and spiritual. The body is “animated” (vivified, made alive) by the soul. The human person, a unity of body and soul, is created in the image and likeness of God. The body, then, is not a puppet to be manipulated or a possession to be used, but an essential aspect of the person. One expression that I have found helpful in understanding the wonderful mystery of the human body is that the body is “the material expression of the soul.” The immortal human soul, created by God in an act of personal love for each human being, actually makes the body what it is.

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