"Many young women ... nor to celebrate their innate wholeness as it reflects the Divine image and likeness." I've come to feel the primordial reality eroding the 'innate wholeness' of all Catholics is the doctrine of 'original sin' - that even newborns must be 'saved'. 'Welcome, Child of Satan' is hardly a reception to fill one with self-confidence, after all. Then, Catholic women are forbidden - by overweening elderly males - to take effective means to use their power to give life responsibly; they're told they should of course plan their studies, work, holidays and all other aspects of a truly self-assured adult human life, but with the one major - gigantic - exception:  under pain of deathly sin, they may not use 'artificial' means to plan their families. We all share Ms Merten's abhorrence of 'rape culture' of course, but I fear her task is much more profoundly difficult even than it appears, given the internalized self-doubt that the male-dominated Church sows in us from Day 1.