The modelling and licensing of this rape culture is done by those protected by power and privilege – presidents, celebrities, sports stars, police officers, television executives, priests – with impunity.
Jesuit theology, which tends to be open and positive, is well suited to American spirituality in 2011, said the Rev. James Martin, a corporate executive turned priest and writer.
"I'm not a New Age guru," said Mr. DeStefano, a former columnist for The Staten Island Advance who is now the chief executive of Priests for Life, a Roman Catholic group opposed to abortion.
"She wanted to tell everyone to continue the fight," said Janet Morana, executive director of Priests for Life.
"She felt used by Sarah Weddington [her attorney] and she felt a sense of responsibility that her signature led to the slaughter of millions of children," said Janet Morana, the executive director of Priests for Life and a longtime friend of McCorvey's.
In this way, she animates people like Willie Conroy, the successful insurance executive; Stuart Chambers, the intellectual priest — and the young Deirdre.
The Rev. Will Hocker, an Episcopal priest and executive director of the Sojourn Chaplaincy, helped lead the redesign effort and about a year ago gathered more than a dozen local religious leaders to rethink the space.
Archbishop Welby was an oil executive before becoming a priest.
Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest, is Executive Director of GreenFaith, an international interfaith environmental organization.
And in a Twitter conversation with HuffPost Religion Executive Editor Paul Raushenbush, Jesuit priest and author Rev. James Martin called it "a stunning change in tone, nearly revolutionary".
