Catholic Women Speaking Out Against Radical Feminist Ideology

Thanks PattyisDucky for your take on femininity, for me its alittle more complex. I have to work...stayed home as long as I could. Now I am in a field with 90% males and am often doing male like jobs. So I try to bring my nature into all things and what I found is that being motherly or sisterly to the guys is helpful on so many levels. First it sets clear boundaries, second it is a way to reach out in love and most of them respond. I do have one coworker who seems to take great pleasure in bully me..but I have prayed for him everyday and there is a change taking place.

(I'm new as well, but I'm gonna just jump in here )

Growing up, I was confused about religion, but my bestest friend was an atheist and a feminist and so I fancied myself a feminist as well. Maybe not the best judgement lol. Anyways, being a convert to catholicism, I didn't understand natural family planning, so I started researching it. I came across the book Women, Sex, & the Church which is a statistical argument for the theology of the body and... wow, feminism has a new meaning for me now.

I agree that feminism has a new definition, the one that you described; one that those against this new definition can't easily re-define. So what do we call ourselves? Pro-choice? Pro-woman? Womanists?

Nice meeting you Joan!

{Edit} Guess I should look at the date of the post I'm replying to... Oh wells!
Pam

I am reading that book right now. It is so good. I love it. Highly recommend it.

Even advertisements that are considered acceptable by the FCC and most of our populous in the USA, are quite harmful to women, to men, to children, and to our society. I long to inspire those who have the knowlege and ability to stop this imposition on all of us. Can't we begin to integrate laws and regulations through either politicians or the FCC, to prohibit the use of women's bodies as a selling tool? It is a crime to play on men's weaknesses, and to invade the space of our homes with seductive women or provacative looks and expressions from women. Women make good money from jobs related to this (and so do men), but it is destroying the marriage, and has robbed the honor and respect that the female is due. Men more and more are unable to be satisfied with their wife after the first few years. The prince of the power of the air--satan-has succeeded in this subtle, yet powerful destruction. It's every where, it's unavoidable. It has set the standard for all of us to look to as something good, normal, or healthy. And it is NONE of these; not good, not normal, not healthy. Lord help us!

I stole the title, sorry about that - but it says it all. This is a thread to expose the tactics of organizations like "Catholics for a Free Choice" that claim you can be Catholic and "pro-choice."

It is also a place to follow the money trail or other connections to these groups that have infiltrated other Catholic coalitions, conferences, events, etc., and point them out so that people are not deceived.

And finally, it's a place to affirm that both the unborn baby and its mother are loved and cared for - that women deserve creative and charitable help for crisis pregancies, not the quick fix abortion is sold as.

Don't care what "Roman Catholic Womenpriests" has to say about the matter, ordination of women in the RCC has not happened and will not happen. Their ordinations are not valid; they are excommunicated. Let us pray they will come to their senses.

I've been thinking about this from the beginning of starting this group, whether to focus it around Catholic women only, or allow men interested in the topic to chime in if they would like.

My reasons for deciding originally in favor of keeping it a women's group were:

1. I wanted it to be a place where Catholic women could affirm their solidarity against the radical feminists, especially those who claim to be Catholic while spreading heresy, who arrogantly claim to be speaking/working on the behalf of all women/all Catholic women.

2. In the case, which sometimes unfortunately happens, that a man who posts would have "issues" due to being hurt by women and have trouble controlling anger, I feared there could be hurtful commentary made, so I wanted to avoid that danger.

Now that the group has enough members to have a forum, though, I'd like to provide this "men's auxiliary" thread, for these reasons:

1. I would like for priests and brothers to be able to contribute wisdom to examining the radical feminist issue and its impact.

2. If inappropriate material is posted, it can be dealt with through reporting.

Please, men, don't read more into my hesitations than that. But I have known women who became radical feminists in part from having been mistreated by (sinful) men. So I wanted these ladies to feel safe. And yet I think this is an issue that affects all of us. So consider yourselves invited to participate, guys, and of course everybody be nice. God Bless!