tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post279553204624832151..comments2024-03-28T11:04:41.070-04:00Comments on southern orders: THE DRIVEL THAT COMES FROM CATHOLIC WOMEN WHO HAVE SOLD THEIR SOULS TO THE ARTIFICIAL BIRTH CONTROL AND PRO-CHOICE MOVEMENTS OF GODLESS SECULARISMFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-66331629454867901652013-05-11T14:09:00.419-04:002013-05-11T14:09:00.419-04:00"They will feel that their voices of post Cat..."They will feel that their voices of post Catholic drivel isn't being given a fair shake."<br /><br />But it <i>has</i> been given a "fair shake." They're just shaken that it's been tried and found wanting.<br /><br /><i>The church doesn’t ask priests and monks to be "manly."</i><br /><br />Actually, yes she does. And she asks priest and monks to be fathers. It's not the Church's fault that her idea of what it means to be manly is different from popular culture's.<br /><br /><i> freeing them from the curse of children so they can pursue "true liberation"</i><br /><br />So how is defining women's progress primarily about "doing everything a man can do" liberating to women if it insists on a definition of the human person that is coded male?<br /><br />A woman can still nurture, and be fruitful and multiply, through having a Ph.D. and teaching at the college level, for example. And let me tell you that motherhood and fertility matter even there, especially if someone's specialty is in women's history, and if they've ever felt pressed that they can't attend to this, that, or the other faculty duty because they "have kids." <br /><br />Furthermore, that we have students in our care and contributions to make in various fields is one of the ways in which God enables us to "be fruitful and multiply" (not the only way, but one of the ways that points to "I am the vine and you are the branches, whoever remains in Me will bear fruit"): we may have our own children to look after, but when we advise students and have their best interests at heart, we are to a very real degree acting in locus parentis. We are being a mother to them in a spiritual sense, too. That is a good deal of what mentoring is about.<br /><br />The fact that someone doesn't want to define women by fertility and motherhood-- and not just the biological, but the spiritual sense-- is precisely why their thinking is actually making it harder for women to balance motherhood with whatever work God has given them as per their talents. Because they DON'T have any integrated sense of motherhood and fertility that extend beyond the merely biological.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-82502131924058109332013-05-10T08:17:30.429-04:002013-05-10T08:17:30.429-04:00Let me get this straight, women who call themselve...Let me get this straight, women who call themselves "feminists" and who constantly carp about "gender" issues are complaining about being defined by their sexuality...hmmmmm...Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06672484450736725268noreply@blogger.com