Tag: Plantations

• Overlaid With a Contradictory Language: Oak Alley Plantation

  Pope John Paul II often described sexual relations as a language of complete self-giving between husband and wife. Contraception, he asserted disapprovingly,  “overlaid” sex with a “contradictory language” in which the spouses, by withholding their fertility, actually did not give their entire selves. Something about the pope’s notion of actions as languages, and of one such language […]

  Anthony M. Joseph

  April 9, 2015