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“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

“He was, to the last agonies of asceticism, a Troubadour. He was a Lover. He was a lover of God and he was really and truly a lover of men; possibly a much rarer mystical vocation.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

“Sex is meant to lead us somewhere, not more deeply into self-love, or even into an inward-facing, exclusionary romantic love, but into a love that is Christ-like and outward facing—a love that is synergistic and abundant, that spills over into the lives of others. Christianity, ultimately, is not about the elimination of sexual desire, but the orientation of it for the sake of love.”
― Abigail Rine Favale, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion

“But as St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi