Being that today is Sunday, did anyone hear any update on Fr. McFarland's condition?

That's twice today St. Therese was brought up as a model for something other than what the Church canonized her for.

The entire life of St. Therese and her parents is NOT some kind of ideal or #1 choice that all Catholics should aspire to.

When the Church canonized St. Therese, it means that St. Therese is in heaven, she practiced heroic virtue, and her Little Way is worthy of imitation. Her virtues were worthy of imitation. It doesn't mean that the #1 best path is for girls to get 2 small earrings, or for parents to work and have someone else watch their children. Or to wait until you are in your mid-30's to get married. Or for women to wait until 26 to get married. Those elements in St. Therese's life (and that of her parents) were TOLERATED or passed over, not held up as the #1 ideal. They weren't enough to derail St. Therese's canonization -- but that doesn't mean they were all ideal or perfect choices that all future Catholics should strive to imitate!

Thank you. The parents are not saints and should not be imitated.

The poor decisions of the mother of St. Maria Goretti led to her horrific death. Yes she is a Saint and her attacker converted but does that mean single mothers should allow their young daughters to live in the same house as creepy unrelated men? No.

Why is it that those who still have proper sensibilities are repulsed by seeing men wearing them?

Random Thought -

This is off topic but I've always wondered why it is that the toughest men in history all wore skirts, uh, I mean kilts.  The Spartans, the Roman Legions and those dastardly Scots all wearing those short skirts?  I get it in the that Roman heat but in Scotland?  What's the deal?

Ok.  Back to the thread...

... and I'd also argue it's part of the feminine charm.

Agreed, as per my post above.  Why is it that those who still have proper sensibilities are repulsed by seeing men wearing them?

Those elements in St. Therese's life (and that of her parents) were TOLERATED or passed over, not held up as the #1 ideal. They weren't enough to derail St. Therese's canonization -- but that doesn't mean they were all ideal or perfect choices that all future Catholics should strive to imitate!

Or they deemed that it has nothing to do with her possession of heroic virtue.  Recall why she wore the earrings.  There's nothing inherently "less perfect" about wearing earings.  It depends on whether or not there's a disorder present.  St. Therese put them on only to look older when petitioning to get into the convent before the normal canonical age.  If some woman wears them simply to appear more feminine (perhaps she has masculine features or is on the homely side), there's nothing more disordered or imperfect about that than a man letting a beard grow out because he otherwise has somewhat effeminate or at least not-very-masculine features.  If it's in the proper order of simply appearing more femine, there's nothing whatsoever disordered about it.  It's on a case by case basis and a matter of the internal forum.  Shouldn't women want to appear feminine and men to appear masculine?  Women who don't appear feminine (say, by wearing pants) are regularly castigated for it, and now a woman who puts on a couple small relatively-modest earrings in order to appear more femine (perhas something she lacks naturally) is also "imperfect"?

Wearing some earrings has become associated with femininity, which is why we're rightly put off by seeing men wearing them.  I don't see women wearing them as any different than wearing a very feminine (albeit modest) dress.