An early Christmas gift from a surprising Nigerian Jesuit.  Of course, our church while magnificent, is, especially now, somewhat lopsided.  We see that more clearly in our modern half empty churches.  That perception may be the only upside in a clearly dying church.  What would our homes, our families be without the mother's presence?  And what sacramental "sign" does a man have that a woman doesn't?  We will surely vanish from too much theological theses emanating from the minds of all those brilliant minds through the centuries.  Death by a thousand abstractions was not Jesus' goal for the church he founded.