Originally posted by iveco:
Go read up Cabot & Cowan. It is mentioned in one of their books.
St Thomas Aquinas is commonly attacked by the feminists. In any case, Aquinas thought that God infuses a soul into a baby girl on the eightieth day after conception. Now, that "eightieth day" part was his personal opinion, not official Catholic dogma.
Back then, nobody knew how human reproduction worked. Now that we know more about conception, the Church today believes that God infuses a soul into every child, male or female, at the moment of conception. Though he was wrong about the timing, Aquinas still believed - along with all his medieval contemporaries - that women have souls.
Besides, if the Church believed that women have no souls, why bother to canonise women as Saints?