Man and Woman He Created Them

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cf. "Is the Theology of the Body in line with traditional Thomistic teaching on marriage?"

WARNING: Wojtyła is a neo-Jovinian.*

*The paleo-Protestant heretic Jovinian is the first St. Alphonsus mentions as holding the view "that marriage and virginity were equally meritorius".
Beware of "Theology of the Body"'s faithfulness to traditional Catholic teaching; cf. this or Engel's "The Theology of the Body: A Critique" and "Sex Abuse in Catholic Schools: The Evolution of Sex Instruction in Catholic Schools from Becoming a Person to Theology of the Body." Fr. Luigi Villa says in "John Paul II Beatified?" that "the masculinity and femininity of the naked body, are for him [John Paul II] the greatest revelations of the human being for themselves and for others" (cf. 13 January 1982 audience)!

• Wojtyła's Love and Responsibility p. 29 blasphemes the love the Divine Persons have when he writes: "Love is exclusively the portion of human persons. [Miłość jest wyłącznym udziałem osób.]" (Petri p. 130)!
  • ToB was originally titled, in accordance with Wojtyła's humanism, "Catechesis on Human Love".
• Wojtyła also thought St. Thomas incorrectly classified chastity as a virtue of temperance (Petri p. 114fn118)! Cf. ibid. p. 166fn12, which cites TOB no. 54: Wojtyła "disagrees with Aquinas's conception that purity 'consists above all in holding back the impulses of sense-desire.' See all ibid., no. 130"!
  • He thinks the remedium concupiscientiæ end of marriage no longer exists (like C. Burke 2015 ch. 8 "An R.I.P. for the Remedium Concupiscentiae ")! cf. ToB no. 84 §8: "Does the Apostle in 1 Corinthians see marriage only from the point of view of a “remedium concupiscentiae [ remedy for concupiscence ],” as one used to say in traditional theological language?"
• Wojtyła thinks virginity/celibacy is not superior to marriage, at least not on the grounds of sexual abstinence alone: "Christ’s words reported in Matthew 19:11–12 (like Paul’s words in 1 Cor 7) give us no reason for holding either the 'inferiority' of marriage or the 'superiority' of virginity or celibacy on the grounds that by their very nature the latter consists in abstaining from conjugal 'union in the body.'" (14 April 1982 audience; cf. Trent sess. 24 can. 10). He goes on to say that marriage and continence do not "divide the human (and Christian) community into two camps (let us say, of those who are “perfect” because of continence, and those who are “imperfect” or less perfect because of the reality of conjugal life)," yet marriage is a hindrance to living the evangelical counsels to their fullest (cf. Summa II-II q. 184 a. 3 c., which mentions marriage).

The PDF is L'Osservatore Romano version that Petri, O.P., mentions on p. 9 of Aquinas and the Theology of the Body. Petri, O.P., says (ibid. p. 10) that Waldstein's edition, based on original manuscripts in Polish, predating Wojtyła's Wednesday catecheses, "is the best critical edition…now available in any language."

Scheeben's emphasis on marriage in ecclesiology is highlighted in:

• Waldstein, Michael Maria. “Scheeben on Marriage.”