On the Square Today

Elizabeth Scalia wonders whether anger begins to abate with gratitude :

Last week, several friends who believe that “the church hates women” and works to suppress them, sent me a link to a story about historian and  L’Osservatore Romano columnist, Lucetta Scaraffia, who, in an interview with  Agence France-Presse announced, “There is misogyny in the Church . . . It’s not possible to go on like this. Women in the Church are angry!”

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