The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, is calling for more artwork in the Church of a loving and tender breastfeeding Virgin Mary. These images used to be the standard, but fell out of favor around the 16th-17th centuries with the rise of protestantism and the emerging idea of the body as sinful instead of sacred. One of the authors for the paper, Father Enrico dal Covolo, a professor of classic and Christian literature in Rome, said: "The Virgin Mary who nurses her son Jesus is one of the most eloquent signs that the word of God truly and undoubtedly became flesh." 
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CONGRATULATIONS DAVID AND LIV! Jeff and I got married on May 17, 2008, and four days later found out that Dixie is making us grandparents in January. January 20, 2009. Of course its going to be a girl, look like me and we are going to name her Ann......heheheh. Anyway, hope all is well with everyone including baby. I am having a multi-racial grandchild. Caucasion, Japanese, and African American! Dixie is going to start a blog so hopefully everyone can check it out!
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Ann
I just came accross your blog while I was looking for pictures of the virgin mary breastfeeding to put on my blog (simplelifemusings.blogspot.com). Anyway, I used your picture, and would love to credit it. My husband and I had the exact same problem with baptism classes at our church in Boston, and ended up convincing the priest to let us bring our baby with us. Good luck!
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