Discuss the difficulties of promoting female empowerment in a Catholic school, given the Church's actions and policies.
It is a great thing, Jennifer, to teach young women that they are powerful, strong, and, in multifaceted ways, beautiful. But it must be difficult to do this important mission in a Catholic school when the Church hierarchy and their idiotic laws themselves conspire against that message in the ways that count most: in action, policy, and opportunity. I'm sure you and the young women you teach rail daily against the Church's nice words that go nowhere—go nowhere with a vengeance.