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Man and Woman He Created Them is John Paul II’s seminal work on the bodily dimension of human identity, sexuality, marriage, and celibacy. First written while he was Archbishop of Kraków, then later revised and delivered as a series of catecheses after he became pope, this work was called “theology of the body” by John Paul II himself. In his momentous teaching, John Paul II has left us the core...

One could also use the term “community” here, if it were not so generic and did not have so many meanings. “Communio” says more and with greater precision, because it indicates precisely the “help” that derives in some way from the very fact of existing as a person “beside” a person. In the biblical account, this fact becomes eo ipso—through itself—existence of the person “for” the person, given that in his original solitude man existed in some way already in this relation. This is confirmed, in
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