“I think sometimes people think that by the vow of celibacy I have closed myself off, but I’ve actually opened myself to the entire world. and so I am not for one, so that I can be for all.”
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“Who I am in every way — as a Filipino, as an American, as a cajun, as an artist, as a woman — all of these things help me in my service to the Church and to the world.”
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"I grew up in the context of a very mission-oriented home…So growing up in that, [I learned] that we were in a position where we can help and so we must. It’s not something that ‘would have been nice’ — like ‘wouldn’t it be nice if we helped out our neighbor’ — no, you have to, you must."
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“From a pretty young age I felt like I didn’t fit the mold of femininity or what it meant to be a little girl. …So I started to question as a very young girl ‘am I good?’ and ‘where do I fit?’”
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"[To me] Catholic feminism held on to what it meant to be a woman and the sacredness of our biology, of our charisms. Catholic feminism held on to woman herself rather than just accommodating woman to a male-dominated world where man is the standard and women are fitting the mold however they can."
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