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## [Review: "The Gift of Birth" by Susan Windley-Daoust](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/05/23/review-the-gift-of-birth-by-susan-windley-daoust)
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“They were ‘doing birth’ to me rather than helping me ‘give birth,’” writes Susan Windley-Daoust of her first experience of childbirth, which she had hoped to do naturally but that instead resulted in “failure to progress” and a C-section. “That birth experience ended up being spiritually abusive by the ongoing treatment of me as an object (and not just an object; close to an object of ridicule). ...
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## [Called to Serve, Called to Lead](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/05/17/called-to-serve-called-to-lead)
Published by [Margaret Felice](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/margaret-felice)
On a recent weekend I was called to fill in as cantor at a local parish. I arrived about twenty minutes before Mass, got the list of music from the organist, asked clarifying questions about the community’s worship style, met the priest, confirmed how to pronounce his name when I announced him, answered his questions about what parts of the Mass would be sung, and took my place at the front of the...
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