Pope St. John Paul II wrote Theology of the Body

Pope St. John Paul II taught that the human body participates in spiritual love, according to an article by Andrew Sodergren for The Catholic Telegraph. In his apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, the late pope stated that love includes the human body and that the body serves as a sharer in spiritual love.

The teaching explores how the mutual self-gift between a man and a woman in marriage acts as a sign of Christ's gift to the Church. While wedding vows establish an exclusive and permanent bond through spoken words, the theology of the body suggests these vows must be enacted through bodily acts to constitute the full reality of marriage.