by TOBET | Sep 8, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, TOBET Blog
Blessed feast of the Nativity of Mary, the Theotokos, whose body carried God made flesh. 43 years ago this week, Pope St. John Paul delivered the very first audience of his Theology of the Body (TOB), his greatest contribution to our Church and our culture. Having...
by TOBET | Aug 24, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Patrick Gordon
If you’ve been a Catholic for longer than five minutes, you probably take for granted terms like the “spiritual life,” or “spirituality.” A close friend might have asked you recently: “How has your spiritual life been going?” And perhaps you have a “spiritual...
by TOBET | Aug 24, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer
I’m slowly making my way through Fr. Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year podcast. Not his newest one, mind you—I’ve just passed the halfway mark for last year’s podcast. Sometimes I go weeks without listening, but I keep coming back because gosh darn it, at some point I...
by TOBET | Jul 21, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer
“Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.” – G.K. Chesterton People in our culture today—and I am by no means excluding Catholics from this observation—are both fascinated and repulsed by the idea of boundaries. We...
by TOBET | Jun 24, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Monica Ashour
On June 24th, 2022 Roe V Wade was officially overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States. “Monica, pull over here. I want to buy something,” Norma McCorvey (“Roe” of Roe v. Wade) said to me as I was driving her back to Dallas after she had given an...
