The first and
most obvious effect, as we noted in this august
organ in its last issue, was that it sent out a clear ecclesiological message, one we have heard before, but never perhaps in such a direct and practical way: the message of the hermeneutic of continuity and reform
against that of discontinuity and rupture.
Most women do not want to discuss reproductive
organs in public, so those whiners who are
against hormone treatments will always be louder.