Ladies last

Stepping to the surface of the moon on June 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong radioed a prepared message back to Earth: "That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Father Larry Lorenzoni may now be entitled to paraphrase Armstrong’s line; he can say: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for womankind."

As previously noted in this magazine (December 16, 1994), Lorenzoni once had occasion to look up, in quick...

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