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Teresa of Avila's survival guide

2/12/2015

 
From NCR: St. Teresa of Avila's survival guide for Catholic women by Nicole Sotelo
When I was a young girl falling madly in love with God, a nun gave me two books about St. Teresa of Avila. Later, I discovered that Teresa and I had another thing in common besides love of God: concern for women's equality. Teresa witnessed women suffering in a church that did not value their gifts, so she set out to make changes. As part of her reforms, she wrote a prayer manual, or, as I like to think of it, a 16th-century feminist survival guide.  continue

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