St. John Paul II propelled the Church into a new era of fruitful contemplation about the dignity and value of women, often reiterating how women, specifically as women reveal the image of God in the world. But his final contribution to that topic may be his most profound. Just months before he passed into eternity, he summed up his decades of teaching on the topic: "To you, women, falls the task of being sentinels of the Invisible."