Mixed Messages

While reading Emily Reimer-Barry's interview, I noticed that she made some very valid points of the negative messages that the Church sends to women.  However, the Church does send a multitude of positive messages to women.  One of the Church's most prominent messages sent to women is to respect and honor their bodies, because our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.  This specific message has been relayed to me through grade school, high school, my church community, and my family.  The Church acknowledges the need for intimacy and intercourse to conceive children, but it also states that each partner should treat the other with dignity and one person is not completely dominant over the other.  I have been taught that women should respect their bodies extra carefully, because they are the reason that the church can continue.  Another positive message to women was allowing them to become alter servers and Eucharistic ministers.  Even though we can't be priests, we can still participate in the mass in a multitude of ways.  The Church's negative messages towards women have decreased because of the fact that they are no longer required and/or expected to be quiet and submissive.  Women are taking a stand and becoming leaders; the Church is finally accepting that.