Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.
Pope John Paul IIWithout wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.
Pope John Paul IIThe ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Pope John Paul II