“Ceremonies may be shadows, but they are the shadows of great truths, and it is essential that they should be carried out with the greatest possible attention.”

                             ~St. Vincent de Paul

For Reflection:

Where do I most need to improve my attention during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass? What positive step to doing so can I take today?

The Authority of Women in the Catholic Church

by Monica Miller; PB 202 pgs Click Here For More Information                            FOREWORD Every age is defined--at least in the history books--by the public conversations that occupy its intellectual classes.  In one age it was the debates about labor and capital. In another it was the passionate exchange about the nature of governance. In still another it was about the relationship between religion and citizenship. Can anyone doubt that the defining public conversation of our time is over the meaning of gender? Certainly it is so. With the sexual revolution, all the traditional roles and rules were overturned; and today our media and our courts are preoccupied with fallout.