Showing posts with label Homer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homer. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Pope John Paul II's Legacy: Catholic Feminism

Vatican Radio: The authority of women in the Church and in society: challenges and ideas (mp3)

Funny how this is being sponsored by the Legionaries' Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum, and no wonder- "Marta Rodriguez is Spanish. She is a consecrated laywoman who has been in Rome for 13 and a half years. For the past 3 years she has headed the Institute of Higher Studies on Women at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University, a reality she herself helped to found in 2003." Is she associated with Regnum Christi?

The conclusion:
"Of course men are welcome guests at the encounters. Marta says in this occasion she has invited a group of seminarians, because “we are very interested in talking with priests because they are the first ones that have to understand our role in the Church and in society”. She tells of a recent experience entitled “ethics of sexual differences”. She says it was very interesting because “we had a group formed by moms, women students and 18 seminarians – and for them it was very important because they knew nothing of women”. And Marta says she believes it is important for future priests to listen and enter into a culture of exchange: “they must be aware that the male perspective is not the only one!”
Ethics of sexual differences - so did the seminarians get exposed to some "pretty lies"? Or were they given the unvarnished truth about what women are like?

Related:
Homer and the Power of Men That Have Chests by Christopher B. Nelson
Willmoore Kendall & the Deliberate Sense of the Community by Mark Nugent