by Monica Ashour | Oct 19, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, Pope John Paul II, Saints and Holy People, TOBET Blog
October 22, 2022 Happy Feast Day, St. John Paul! “Are you Monica Ashour?” a stranger said to me. We were on a train to Rome for St. John Paul’s Canonization on April 28, 2014. Shocked, I said, “Yes. Do I know you?” She said, “I’m Mary Sladek, and this is my husband,...
by Monica Ashour | Sep 8, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, Pope John Paul II, Saints and Holy People, 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 Monica Ashour | Jun 24, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, Culture, TOBET Blog
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...
by Monica Ashour | Mar 21, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, Lent, TOBET Blog
My favorite day in Lent is March 25. No, it’s not my favorite since I can eat dessert because it is a solemnity (though that’s a bonus)! Rather, it is the day that “the body entered theology…through the main door” (TOB 23:4). What does Pope John Paul mean? And how...
by Monica Ashour | Feb 11, 2022 | by Monica Ashour, Marriage and Love, TOBET Blog
“I love you.” Those are powerful words—or they ought to be, if “luv” becomes love. What is “luv?” We all recognize “luv” as that attraction and infatuation for someone else and the intense feelings that come it. Now, I don’t mean to criticize “luv.” Not at all. In...
