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Mary Catherine Sommers is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and past director of the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (Houston). Her research interests include Thomas Aquinas and the virtues.
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Time to ordain women…or not

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Women in the Church are freed for the prophetic role that can only belong to “outsiders.” […]

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