Dancing the Theology of the Body: When the Spirit of the World Wears a Catholic Mask
National Catholic Register portal reports on Sharon Boies, a Newport Beach dance instructor who claims to teach John Paul II’s “theology of the body” through ballroom dance classes for engaged and married Catholic couples. The article presents her work as a wholesome countercultural alternative to modern dating, describing how couples learn “complementarity” through leading and receiving on the dance floor, accompanied by images of Our Lady of Guadalupe and a Divine Mercy tapestry adorning her studio. What the article never once interrogates is whether the entire theological framework undergirding this enterprise — the “theology of the body” itself — is a modernist corruption of Catholic anthropology that dissolves the supernatural order into a naturalistic philosophy of human self-fulfillment.


