Sex and justice

In his Theology of the Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II’s , Christopher West perceptively notes that John Paul II cut through “the false dichotomy between the typically labeled ‘liberal’ concern for social justice and the ‘conservative’ concern for Church doctrine on sexual morality.”

He continues: “John Paul is viewed as a man of contradiction because of his staunch support for both.  Yet the contradiction does not lie in him.  Social justice and sexual morality flow from the very same vision of the human person’s dignity as a subject made in God’s image and called to live in a communion of persons.  Further, since man and woman’s relationship is the deepest substratum of the social structure, there can be no social justice without a return to the full truth of the Christian sexual ethic.”