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Just months before he passed into eternity, he summed up his decades of teaching on the topic: "To you, women, falls the task of being sentinels of the Invisible ".
But his final contribution to that topic may be his most profound.
John Paul II propelled the Church into a new era of fruitful contemplation about the dignity and value of women, often reiterating how women "" specifically as women "" reveal the image of God in the world.
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