“I have never succeeded when I have spoke with the faintest suspicion of hardness. One must be ever on one’s guard not to embitter the heart, if one wishes to move the mind.”

                         ~St. Vincent de Paul

For Reflection:

According to St. Vincent de Paul, how successful am I in speaking the truth to others? Does my own experience bear out his advice? How can I best prepare myself to speak the truth in love and to receive the truth in love?
(Hint: See September 18th’s Graceline to discover an answer.)

The Authority of Women in the Catholic Church

by Monica Miller; PB 202 pgs
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In a 2004 letter to bishops on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prior to his election as Pope Benedict XVI, pointed us to the Paschal Mystery as the linchpin for understanding male and female complementary roles within the Church: “Placed within Christ’s Paschal mystery, they no longer see their difference as a source of discord to be overcome by denial or eradication, but rather as the possibility for collaboration, to be cultivated with mutual respect for their difference. From here, new perspectives open up for a deeper understanding of the dignity of women and their role in human society and in the Church.”

May this book lead readers–and lead our public conversation–to “new perspectives” and a “deeper understanding” of the complementary gift the feminine charism is to the Catholic Church.

~SCOTT HAHN