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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 6

' Tho January' number of _ "Tho Month" opens with an interesting article dealing with tho question, "Has tho Church denied that women have souls?" It seems rather a preposterous statement (says tho "Catholic Times"), but when the positive statement is ma do to tho effect that . tho. Church., gravely represented by a council, has denied to tho more spiritual half of humanity tho possession of souls, and when tho statement is arrogantly reiterated in popular papers, it is well to know tho definito truth as to what actually gavo rise to the absurd misstatement in tho first instance. So Father Herbert Thurston has been to some pains to study and set fortli what happened at tho Council of Macon in 685 to originato so ridiculous a calumny. All that can bo discovered is that at such council a Bishop questioned whothcr a woman could bo called homo. At least St. Gregory of Tours says so, but even ho adds: "When tho other Bishops had reasoned with'him he held his peace." Father Thurston very properly remarks, "There is not in tho language of tho chronicler the faintest- suggestion of any discussion having taken placo about tho souls of women."