“Stay where you belong, Mother.” The speaker is a cardinal; the woman he’s addressing is the founder of a religious order. She’s getting a bit full of herself, the prelate believes, and she needs reining in. Women like her don’t rule the world, and they certainly don’t rule the Catholic Church.
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