1989 July/August issue Part 2

What's a nice girl like you...

Young people have the crazy notion now days that the only way to really "get to know" somebody is to get intimate. That's what's important. No it isn't. What's important is what the person lives for and how much they'd be willing to risk for it. The following is reprinted from The Pilot, a Catholic weekly of the Aarchdiocese of Boston, March 31, 1989, with the premission of John Mallon:

   "One of the few places where a single catholic male can meet a nice Catholic girl these days is in jail- after being on the sidewalk blocking the entrance to an abortion mill. You can pretty well assume that she takes her faith- and The Faith- seriously and probably doesn't scoff at things like virginity, purity, chastity, and love, or view motherhood as a male plot to oppress women. She will know what she believes- and why- perhaps from bitter experience. She will have a light shining through her. Pro-life women may be the last hope for American womanhood.

   "These are the poeple our society is starting to arrest these days. It is hard to meet such women at the Catholic [or Protestant- i might add- EE] universities, which have no shortage of pro-abortion feminists, and others hell-bent on liberating women from the 'oppressive' shackles of Catholicism into the freedom of being 'sexually active'- complete with the right to prevent or dispose of any possible result from that activity.

   "With the assault on femininity in full force, what is a simple Catholic boy to do in his search for female companionship except to join the fight for the restoration of womanhood (among other things) by stopping the socially sanctioned killing of babies? What else but get in the way of law-abiding folks who kill babies for a living? Try to rescue the women and children who will suffer from this legalized carnage.

  "Could the pro-life movement be the last bastion for feminine loveliness and strength? Young male Christian friends of mine have commented to me the lovely qualities and virtue of the women they meet at Operatoin Rescue demonstrations. This is not to trivialize the solemn business of saving children from death and their mothers from trauma...

   "It cannot be ignored that modernism's all out assault on love, family, femininity, masculinity, womanhood, manhood, motherhood, fatherhood, sex, child conceiving, bearing, and rearing has necessary played havoc with youthful romance. And it is indeed about the business of banishing romance down the same road that it has already given genteel courtship. What The World takes for romance is really seduction- a race to bed rather than a gentle dance of mutual discovery. A good women is as hard to find as a good man used to be- a good man perhaps even harder than ever...

   "So where can you go to meet a good and faithful young Catholic woman in this day and age? In jail. Where else?"