Men these days, as in the past, are less inclined to be religious or to attend church than are women. That is the alienation which one might expect the Society of Jesus, as a male religious order, to address. Coming now it sounds terribly me-too. Only celibate males could fashion such an apologia. But by all means Jesuits should listen to women.
Husbands do it all the time.
Ken Woodward, senior writer and religion editor at Newsweek, is also author of Making Saints, a study of the canonization process.