In response to recent headlines, Jason Evert explains the story behind Pope St. John Paul II’s letters to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, a married Polish philosopher and friend of the pope before and during his papacy. Jason points out that—despite what our oversexualized culture would have us think—it is possible to have a genuine, chaste friendship with someone of the opposite sex. As Pope St. John Paul II said, “God uses human friendship to lead hearts to the source of divine charity.”
Jason Evert is a presenter in Theology of the Body for Teens. Find out more at http://bit.ly/24fmzBK.
St. John Paul the Great with his female bestfriend: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. Both were survivors of Nazi persecution. Both were famous philosophers with specialty in the thoughts of Max Scheler.