Quote from Reply #1
Women are made to be mothers. Nothing else. When we try to tell women their value is something else or more than that it leads to all kinds of problems.
Quote from Seraphina
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I suppose all these women are in mortal sin?
Seraphina askes a very valid question, and the statement in the first cited quote would seem to contradict the Church's lived experience across the centuries. Women in religious life (by definition celibate and not mothers), both cloistered and in apostolates, have been part of the backbone of the Church's mission, particularly in the areas of education and health care, but not limited to those. When one thinks of the works of Mother Joseph of the Sisters of Charity of Providence, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton, founder of the Sisters of Charity, St. Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament one should be in awe with what they accomplished. In the 1980's I needed to have a hernia repair at a hospital in Seattle and was told that Mother Cabrini herself purchased the land for that hospital. Her relics are in the altar of St. James Cathedral, just 2 or 3 blocks away. I was born at Providence Hospital in Seattle and Mother Joseph herself designed and supervised the construction of the original part of that complex.
At one time one could be certified to teach grammar school (elementary, grades 1-8 in those days) after two years of post secondary training in what was called a Normal School. My paternal grandmother completed that training at Holy Names Academy in Spokane and moved to Almira, near where Grand Coulee Dam is today, to teach in the public school, where she met my grandfather, a farmer. Another woman later graduated from Holy Names Normal School and moved to the Grand Coulee construction town to teach, and met my uncle. They both left teaching after marriage, but their initial career path led to their marriage and motherhood.
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