Aside from the divine conception, he came the same way we all do: through pregnancy, labor, birth, infancy.… And that fact elevates not only all humanity, but especially all womankind. In the Incarnation, as in all human births, nothing happened without the loving, sacrificial participation of a woman. “Be it unto me according to thy word,” said Mary. The angel called her “highly favored.” Elizabeth called her “blessed among women.” And Mary, in her paean of faith, the Magnificat, cried out: “He