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“The adoration of Christ had been a part of the man's passionate nature for a long time past. But the imitation of Christ, as a sort of plan or ordered scheme of life, in that sense may be said to begin here.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

“it needed ten times more courage to look after a leper than to fight for the crown of Sicily”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

“This is why priests must be male; not because men are smarter, or better leaders, or more spiritual, or fill-in-the-blank, but because of the iconography of the male body. This is not something earned or chosen but given. There is a givenness to our bodies that makes present the realities of God, and the intricate nexus of these images, that sacred web, has become far more precious to me, far more beautiful than a flattened, bland gesture toward earthly equality. Sacrificing the embodiment of these metaphors to satisfy some modern egalitarian sensibility would be, to me, a tragic desecration, a calamitous loss.”
― Abigail Rine Favale, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion

“Feminism’s masculine bias is most evident in its championing of abortion. Rather than seeking to change social structures to accommodate the realities of female biology, the feminist movement, since its second wave, has continually and firmly fought instead for women to alter their biology, even through violence, so that it functions more like a man’s. Tellingly, the legal right for a woman to kill a child in her womb was won before the legal right for a woman not to be fired for being pregnant. This transmits the message that women must become like men to be free.”
― Abigail Rine Favale, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion