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February 3, 2005 Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 8 Reading I Heb 12:18-19, 21-24 Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them. Indeed, so fearful was the spectacle that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling." No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and...

Code: ZE04073101 Date: 2004-07-31 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the World Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHON THE COLLABORATION OF MEN AND WOMENIN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD  INTRODUCTION1. The Church, expert in humanity, has a perennial interest in whatever concerns men and women. In recent times, much reflection has been given to the question of the dignity of women and to women's rights and duties in the different areas of civil society and...