The Noble Body 

“There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart.”

Ecclesiasticus 30:16, The Holy Bible, DRV

“The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit:

Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity.  Through his very bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world.  Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator.  For this reason man may not despise his bodily life.  Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honour since God has created it and will raise it up on the last day

The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the "form" of the body: i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church, #364-#365

“Man and woman were made "for each other" - not that God left them half-made and incomplete: he created them to be a communion of persons, in which each can be "helpmate" to the other, for they are equal as persons ("bone of my bones. . .") and complementary as masculine and feminine.  In marriage God unites them in such a way that, by forming "one flesh", they can transmit human life: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth."  By transmitting human life to their descendants, man and woman as spouses and parents co-operate in a unique way in the Creator's work.

In God's plan man and woman have the vocation of "subduing" the earth as stewards of God.  This sovereignty is not to be an arbitrary and destructive domination. God calls man and woman, made in the image of the Creator "who loves everything that exists", to share in his providence toward other creatures; hence their responsibility for the world God has entrusted to them.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church, #372-#373