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What a coincidence! (Letters).
From:
National Catholic Reporter
| Date:
August 2, 2002| Author:
Hnat, Karen
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* July 22 is the feast day of St. Mary of Magdala, a woman and a prominent leader in the early Christian church who by the authority of Christ himself was told to open her mouth and speak, announcing the resurrection. Ever since then, however, it seems clerics have been busy trying to silence the voice of women, and in the Catholic church this has been done by refusing to ordain them, thereby denying them the opportunity to preach. On Jan. 15, the U.S. bishops' conference passed a ...
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