The Other Side of the Veil
I guess you could call this my "coming out" post, in a sense. Because I have been struggling with something for many years, and have finally decided to go public with it all. I am not prefacing my article this way to poke fun at anyone. It is simply the best way I know to introduce a decision that has made a big impact on my life. It is a controversial issue among some in the Catholic Church. Rest assured, though, I am very sure of the path I have chosen, for I was guided there by the Holy Spirit. Ready? Holding your breath? I wore a veil to Mass last Sunday, which was the first Sunday of Advent. This is where you gasp and say to yourself, "You know, Joni had already gone pretty far off the deep end when she became Catholic. But now? Now she's trying to take us back to the time of women held under the tyranny of men. Doesn't she know Vatican II liberated us from all that? Poor, poor Joni!" Okay, maybe that's a bit overboard...