"the woman more than the man represents the character of creaturely being and activity in its full purity."

     "Here, then, is why the Church can never relinquish the image of Bridegroom and Bride as descriptive of the relation between Christ and the Church.  Here is why she must continue to limit the specialized (albeit indispensable) function of the ministerial priesthood to men.  Here, finally, is why she must continue to oppose the confusion of genders evident today in the description of homosexuality as an 'alternative lifestyle,' and in the dominant feminist drift toward androgyny.
     "In a word, what is finally at stake in the Church’s defense of her marian-feminine form, and of a (trinitarian) complementarity between genders, is her continuing ability to act on behalf of the future of human civilization."

     David L. Schindler, "Catholic theology, gender, and the future of Western civilization," Communio:  international Catholic review 20 (Summer 1993):  239 (200-239).  Cf. Scheeben.