Originally published at crisis magazine
“The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to “rule over the earth”; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.”
— Fulton Sheen’s The World’s First Love
Catholics for Choice, an organization founded by Frances Kissling, a former abortion clinic operator (and someone who did not deem herself a Catholic), has been in the business of scandal since its inception in 1973. And sadly, the start of Advent only provided them with further opportunity for heinous behavior. December commenced with Catholics for Choice promoting the blasphemous statement that “This holiday season, remember that Mary had a choice, and you should too.”
Met immediately with backlash, the nefarious “typers” behind the account dug their heels in and added: “When the Angel Gabriel approached Mary, he offered her the gift of choice to say, ‘Let it be so.’ We all deserve this same dignity and autonomy over our own bodies.”
What makes these statements especially disgusting is the unabashed perversion of Our Lady’s Fiat. Her attitude of complete surrender—of “Thy
