This New Book Clarifies Today’s Muddled View of What It Means to Be a Woman| National Catholic Register

My eldest daughter turned 14 in July. Since her five older siblings are all boys, I’m seeing the transformation of a daughter from a girl into a young woman for the first time. With so much confusion in our culture about what it means to be a woman, I am petrified.  Awkwardly I explain the physical changes she is experiencing. Impatiently I observe the emotional rollercoaster she is riding. I lean on the Church, particularly St. John Paul II’s theology of the body, to help me answer tough questions about human sexuality.  Any discussion I, as a Catholic, have on womanhood also includes the example of the Virgin Mary. In his Marian masterpiece, True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis de Montfort highlights 10 of the most important virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are: deep humility, lively faith, complete obedience, unceasing prayer, constant self-denial, surpassing purity, ardent love, heroic patience, angelic kindness and heavenly wisdom.  So far, so good.

This New Book Clarifies Today’s Muddled View of What It Means to Be a Woman| National Catholic Register