Sixty-four percent of American Catholics say the Church should allow women to be ordained as priests, according to Pew Research. Journalists are eager to highlight fringe groups like the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests and the Women’s Ordination Conference when they’re on the march, and surely there exist some women who want to be priests. Oprah came to the motherhouse in the early 2000s to document life in the chapel and cloister. Thérèse had joined the convent because she had a supernatural appetite to love perfectly. Every Dominican has a Carmelite heart because every Christian is called to love perfectly.