Thank you, women who work!
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In transforming culture so that it supports life, women occupy a place, in thought and action, which is unique and decisive. It depends on them to promote a “new feminism” which rejects the temptation of imitating models of “male domination,” in order to acknowledge and affirm the true genius of women in every aspect of the life of society, and overcome all discrimination, violence and exploitation.
Found here.
I am a Catholic, and I have long known that John Paul II was pretty hopeless on feminism. He was a pedestaliser and quite unrealistic about women. He used to call himself the “papa feminista”. He was nothing like the social conservative the media claimed.
It is good to see The Thinking Housewife and others spreading this message.
It is not true, as some traditionalists claim, that he overturned the traditional teaching on the headship of the husband, but his support for it was quite muted.
You would have thought that all the divorces and abortions would have clued him up to women’s true nature, but apparently not. A true pedestaliser. I think Benedict is a bit less silly on this topic, but he is not a very strong patriarch either.
The Ratzinger I imagined from pre-Benedict articles in First Things breathed much more fire.
Some of the Catholic literature explaining his Theology of The Body:
Describes Mary as being more perfect and greater than anyone save God if I’m remembering correctly.
Describes a woman’s vagina as the holy of holies.
Source: Christopher West.
“Describes Mary as being more perfect and greater than anyone save God if I’m remembering correctly.”
My guess is that this refers to the Immaculate Conception. Which, contrary to popular usage, is not the same thing as the Virgin Birth. The ostensible reason for the existence of this doctrine is that the mother of the Christ could not herself be tainted by Original Sin. Thus Mary must have been born immaculate. I suspect that the doctrine developed from Mariolatry, as mother-goddess worship seems to be a fairly universal perversion.