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Jen L.
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Cardinal O'Malley urges 4,000 women to stand up for life, family
Boston, Mar 20, 2007 / 01:13 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Sean O'Malley called on thousands of Catholic women in Boston on Sunday to stand up for their values regarding life, marriage and family.
"You have a credibility, just by being women … that oftentimes is not accorded to priests and bishops," he reportedly told more than 4,000 women at the second Boston Catholic Women's Conference. "The Church is counting on our women to speak that word. I ask you to be courageous."
The women packed the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, surpassing the number of men at a similar conference on Saturday. The snowstorm reduced attendance at the men's conference to 3,000, about 2,000 fewer than expected, reported the Boston Globe.
Local parishioners started the men's event three years ago in response to the cardinal’s call for lay people to help rebuild and strengthen the Church, after the clergy sexual abuse scandal. These meetings have now become the nation's largest meetings of their kind.
One of the speakers at the women’s conference was Immaculee Ilibagiza of Rwanda, who shared about how her faith helped her survive the 1994 genocide. The program also included confession, singing, and Mass with the Cardinal.
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No kidding, Jen! Thanks for quoting this article. Especially since in the recent NCR, there is an article about public schools reading books to pre-K and K to encourage the kids to understand single-sex attraction and "marriages"..... 
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Good for Cardinal O'Malley. We need our priests,bishops and Cardinals to ask things of us and to be there teaching and helping us along.
Thanks for sharing this Jen!
I am returning a book on raising boys to the library b/c it is totally promoting homosexuality at birth and acting on sexual desire as preteens as normal.
What is wrong with our world?!?!?
Don't mean to hijack the thread...just we need more Cardinal O'Malleys!
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I have a soft-spot in my heart for Cardinal Sean - he was the homilist my brother chose for his first Mass (not Cardinal Sean but Father Sean back then  ).
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I was there! 
I went with my 3 dd and met 10 other women from our community... My favorites talks... Dana Scanlon and Immaculee and the Cardinal.
One of the messages for me from Dana...
A woman was talking with her spiritual advisor about how she was drained. The kids took her energy, her time, her patience etc. The spiritual advisor looked at her and said, "GOOD!" Let them have it.. GIVE it to them, that is whatyou are supposed to do."
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soodow wrote:
A woman was talking with her spiritual advisor about how she was drained. The kids took her energy, her time, her patience etc. The spiritual advisor looked at her and said, "GOOD!" Let them have it.. GIVE it to them, that is whatyou are supposed to do."
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Sue, this is so me -- oooo, poor me, my kids drain me .... yada, yada, yada! That's what I need is a spiritual advisor who says "snap out of it and do your job."
Thanks for the quote!
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