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Nick Koeppel opens this episode with a vivid biographical portrait of Karol Wojtyła: his childhood in Wadowice, the loss of his mother and brother, his father’s witness of prayer in their Kraków apartment as the first seminary, his encounter with the layman Jan Tyranowski and the Spanish mystics, working in a quarry during World War II, his underground seminary formation, his doctorate on St. John of the Cross at the Angelicum in Rome, and his years accompanying young married couples and university students whose pastoral encounters would become the raw material of the theology of the body.

Nick then gives a structured overview of the Theology of the Body catechesis itself — delivered as Wednesday general audiences from 1979 to 1984 — covering its two main movements: anthropology (who is the human person, tracing origin, history and destiny through Genesis, the fall and the resurrection) and mission (how that identity is lived out in celibacy or marriage). He explains the meaning of the phrase “theology of the body,” the spousal meaning inscribed in male and female bodies, and why man and woman in loving communion are the image of a God who is himself a communion of persons.

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