“For in this way especially does a friend differ from a flatterer: The flatterer speaks to give pleasure, but the friend refrains from nothing, even that which causes pain.”

                            ~St. Basil the Great

For Reflection:

A true friend speaks – and hears -- the truth in love. Am I a true friend, both in speaking the truth and in receiving the truth? Why or why not? (Note: For a definition of “speaking the truth in love” see tomorrow’s Graceline).

The Authority of Women in the Catholic Church

by Monica Miller; PB 202 pgs Click Here For More Information 

                FOREWORD

You'll find no novelties in this book. It is well grounded in the tradition. Those familiar with the Church's earliest centuries will find the seeds of Dr. Miller's ideas in the writings of St. Paul and the early Church Fathers, including Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, John Chrysostom, and Cyprian.  Feminine authority in the Catholic Church is not an abstract theory or a feel-good theology; it is a unique feminine responsibility for the faith that has been exercised--historically and concretely--in the lives of particular women, such as Judith, Deborah, Perpetua and Felicity, Monica, Catherine of Siena, and many heroic women of our own day.