text: The stories of these young women leaves me with admiration for their willingness to suffer for their vocations and for the Church, with anger for their situation and with sadness that so much energy has to be wasted on the fight for women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church.  It is a struggle worth having--just ask the women in the Episcopal Church who went through similar struggles fifty years ago or the women who followed in their footsteps and benefited from their prophetic witness.  I am one of the latter.  Raised Roman Catholic, I finally realized that I did not want to spend my life being angry at being seen as "less" as a woman and at that decision point in 1977 I was barely aware that the call to ordained ministry was lurking in a corner of my heart and soul but I did know that the Roman Catholic church did not have a monopoly on the Holy Spirit, or the Gospel or the life of faith.  I pray for these brave faithful young women and hope that those who have ears, hear.