Christopher West
“I am a man of great hope, because there is an answer to the crisis of our times. Whenever the Church faces a crisis, the Holy Spirit also raises up great saints to respond. John Paul II is just such a saint, and his Theology of the Body provides the answer to our particular crisis.”
About the Saint John Paul II Legacy Foundation
Among the many teachings that Saint John Paul II delivered to the Church and the world, his Theology of the Body “stands out as lonely Mount Everest among the hills.” This “is John Paul II’s masterwork,” and forms the “core of his great vision.”
– Michael Waldstein Professor of Theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is “a kind of theological time bomb set to go off with dramatic consequences, sometime in the third millennium of the Church.”
– George Weigel, Papal biographer.
The Saint John Paul II Legacy Foundation is working to detonate his “theological time bomb” by ensuring that the “core of his great vision” reaches men and women around the globe through high quality courses and resources regardless of people’s ability to pay for them.
"The body, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine"
Scholarships
to Immersion Courses
In this time of widespread sexual chaos and gender confusion, enthusiasm continues to grow for Saint John Paul II’s life-changing teaching on the meaning of our creation as male and female.
There is a particular desire on the part of seminarians, priests, religious women, catechists, and other teachers of the faith (numbering into the tens of thousands) to be formed in this prophetic vision so they can then pass it on to others.
Providing grants and scholarships to make this kind of formation available to everyone, everywhere, regardless of ability to pay, is a primary purpose of our Patron Community.
«This beautiful message from John Paul II totally changed my life. I think this is actually the answer to everything in our world today.»
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