by Monica Ashour | Apr 15, 2025 | by Monica Ashour, Catholic Life, Prayer, TOBET Blog
There is a true and factual story of mine that illustrates the incredible theological truth that baptism is dangerous. When I was a campus minister at St. Mary’s at Texas A&M University, the run-down church needed a new air conditioning and heating system. It can...
by Monica Ashour | Oct 23, 2024 | by Monica Ashour, Catholic Life, Culture, Femininity, Masculinity, Pope John Paul II, TOB Elevator Pitch, TOBET Blog, Virtues
Last week after a business meeting in Pennsylvania, I happened upon a crowd outside a theater, about to watch the opening of a new movie for the film festival. As I stood in line for tickets, I chatted with three young adults, all of whom had never met until that...
by Monica Ashour | Mar 1, 2024 | by Monica Ashour, Catholic Life, Lent, TOBET Blog, Virtues
Pope Benedict, in continuity with Pope St. John Paul’s Theology of the Body (TOB), speaks of three main aspects of the human person: communal, historical, and bodily. Does this mean that these two great popes don’t believe in the spiritual dimension of the person? Of...
by Monica Ashour | Oct 19, 2023 | by Monica Ashour, Catholic Life, Culture, Pope John Paul II, TOBET Blog
“War against the body means we must do this with a clear emphasis upon the theological importance of the body. This will not be news to some. Pope John Paul II’s rich legacy on the theology of the body is meat and drink to thoughtful Catholics, yet it is not something...
by Monica Ashour | May 17, 2023 | by Monica Ashour, Femininity, Saints and Holy People, TOBET Blog
For Mother’s Day, I decided to reflect on what Mother Mary teaches all of us—women and men—about the feminine posture of receptivity. So, I read Pope Benedict’s Mary: The Church at Her Source regarding the Magnificat. Mary speaks of “magnifying the Lord.” What does...
