The Archdiocese of Boston brought in Christopher West to offer a full-day seminar on the Theology of the Body on Saturday – and when I say "Archdiocese" I mean Archdiocese – the talk was co-sponsored by 17 chancery offices, and there were many clergy and religious in attendance, including bishops. Some blogger reports:

Dom Bettinelli

Melanie Bettinelli

Genevieve Kinkade.

Melanie remarks:

From what I’ve heard, Cardinal O’Malley is very determined to make this not a one time event but the beginning of a movement. Seventeen offices of the Archdiocese of Boston cooperated in bringing West to Boston. This is the beginning of a new effort in the redemption of the Body in an area where the Church has been gravely wounded by sexual sin, where we have deeply felt the need for such redemption, and which is on the front lines of attack against the Church’s teachings on the meaning of marriage and human sexuality

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