Jamaica Gleaner Mind & Spirit published: Saturday | July 29, 2006
The trouble with menstruating women
Women who are called to the ministry struggle against various cultural perceptions of femaleness and the 'woman's place'. There is a particular negative way that women are viewed which is compounded in the religious sphere: Women are seen as unclean.
At Krakow's Franciscan Missionary Centre, a display case full of African masks and Asian costumes recalls the adventures that awaited priests who went to spread the Roman Catholic faith in far-off lands.
