Fr. Roger J. Landry
Catholic Young Adult Community
St. Columba Center
Auckland, New Zealand
July 9, 2019
To listen to the audio recording of tonight’s first conference on the challenge of holiness facing the Church today, please click below:
To listen to the audio recording of tonight’s second conference on how the theology of the body responds to the need for training in holiness to respond to those challenges, please click below:
The outline of tonight’s talks was:
- Every crisis the Church faces is a crisis of saints
- Major problems facing the Church
- Scandal
- Secularism
- Inadequate or false anthropologies
- The theology of the body is a response to this crisis of secularism, anthropological, theological and moral confusion.
- The counter-cultural nature of the Church’s teaching
- The training in holiness needed in general
- An overview of the Theology of the Body
- How living the Theology of the Body helps form us in sanctity: A rereading of the theology of the body in light of the universal call to holiness
- Conclusion