Catholic theology on the body
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This article is about the Catholic theology on the subject of the human body. For the theologies of various Christian denominations on the body, see Theology of the body. For Pope John Paul II's theological lectures on the human body, see Theology of the Body.
The theology on the body is a broad term for Catholic teachings on the human body.
The dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, defined in Pope Pius XII's 1950 apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus, is one of the most recent developments in the Catholic theology of the body.