Pope Urges Respect for Women

The Church is definately playing catch-up here. But the statement by the Pontiff is welcome, nonetheless.

From CNN

QUOTE "Sadly, this God-given role of the dignity of women has not always been understood and esteemed," the pontiff said on his first visit to Jordan as pope.
"By its public witness of respect for women ... the Church in the Holy Land can make an important contribution to the advancement of a culture of true humanity and the building of the civilization of love," the pontiff said. UNQUOTE

The Irish Rover Nails It

From The Irish Rover: Be sure and click on over and read the whole thing. Good stuff. I love the photo of Therese as a child. What a face!! What a wise woman, a saint who became a Doctor of The Church ~

"I choose all."

As a woman, I can make new people, heal and console, plus identify fully with Our Lady. What're your superpowers?

QUOTE Better yet, as St. Therese demanded, can we too state, "I choose all!"? Is it possible, now, to retain value for the true rights of the human person, like those at the top?
I've read philosophers' and theologians' discussions on the distortion, the root of the decline of Western Civilization and the family unit. Of three bold and obvious culprits, contraception, the disrespect of the feminine genius and the rise of the Age of Enlightenment, which is the lynch-pin, and then how do we right our attitude?
Did disdain for women's particular gift, nurturing life, lead to acceptance of contraception, or was the latter instrumental in fanning flames of feminism? UNQUOTE