[I see stereotypical feminism in OR's editoral board]
L’Osservatore editor sees ‘misogyny’ in Church leadership
CWN – July 09, 2012
The leading female contributor to the Vatican newspaper has suggested that if women had a greater role in Church leadership, the sex-abuse scandal would not have occurred.
“If there had been women in positions of power they would not have allowed those things to happen,” Lucretta Scaraffia said in an AFP. Scaraffia edits a special section of L’Osservatore Romano aimed at women readers, and has pressed for more women in Vatican posts to counteract what she describes as “misogyny in the Church.”
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Actually there is a whole lot of truth in this, thought about intelligently. I was just re-reading Sigrid Undset’s brilliant essay in Stages on the Road about St. Angela Merici. Undset, whom we may regard as an expert in most anthropological data sets as well as consciously confronting modernism, made the point that only Catholicism elevsted both womanhood and marriage to the supernatural degree, and that all falling away of that ideal simply returned womanhood to the old pagan inequality. Undset says all forms of protestantism, first of all in their wholesale defense of divorce, do this. To the degree that the Church did (at the council) and still does embrace protestant tendencies, women in the Church have most certainly been reduced. The continuation of the destruction of religious orders for women (in the disinterest in fostering vocations) has in particular diminished our opportunities for grace and service. The failure to fight the contraceptive mentality, the failure to fight abortion, the failure to fight the tendency to equate equality with participation in the mercantile labor market, the failure to fight the dissolution of the family, all these failures and many others are protestant tendencies in the Church which must, for the sake of womanhood, be resisted anew with all our hearts. There IS a war on women presently ongoing. It is protestantism and it intends to destroy our supernatural dignity first and foremost, and our natural security and peace secondarily..
The women best representing feminism now are those SSPX women sacrificing their lives to preserving Tradition, and they deserve so much recognition. It takes a great deal of simple hard labor to keep our chapels going, to participate in our endless rosary crusades, to do all that is necessary.
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Jan is a fine contributor. Always spot on and eloquent.