Notes from OPJIC
Posted April 26, 2012

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Reflections on Women’s Dignity and Participation “… Since women are becoming ever more conscious of their human dignity, they will not tolerate being treated as inanimate objects or mere instruments, but claim both in domestic and public life, the rights and duties that befit a human person.” (#41)                                  - Peace on Earth, 1963. John XXIII “… Women expect to be treated with dignity as persons in their own right. They want to be acknowledged as individuals with unique gifts and talents, to be taken as seriously as peers and partners, to be accepted as equals in a world that seems often to be dominated by men.”                                - Called to Be One in Christ Jesus, 1992. NCCB “I believe that women themselves, with their energy and strength…with what I’d call their ‘spiritual power,’ will know how to make their own space. And we will have to try and listen to God so as not to stand in their way but, on the contrary, to rejoice when the female element achieves the fully effective place in the Church best suited to her ~ starting with the Mother of God and with Mary Magdalene.”                                - Pope Benedict XVI, August 2006 (Reflection) “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.”                                 - Albert Einstein www.srcharitycinti.org/opjic/women.htm www.srcharitycinti.org/opjic/political.htm