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Most Catholic feminists I know take the following positions:
1. Men and women are equal children of God and share in that equal dignity.
2. There is a greater difference between clergy and laity than between lay men and lay women, when it comes to permissible roles within... https://twitter.com/noordinarysocks/status/1246511942321176576
1. Men and women are equal children of God and share in that equal dignity.
2. There is a greater difference between clergy and laity than between lay men and lay women, when it comes to permissible roles within... https://twitter.com/noordinarysocks/status/1246511942321176576
... the Church.
3. The ordained male priesthood is a true and mystical gift with eschatological significance. It does not, however, imply that all males share in a hierarchical superiority over all females.
4. Women do not owe random men submission or subservience. The...
3. The ordained male priesthood is a true and mystical gift with eschatological significance. It does not, however, imply that all males share in a hierarchical superiority over all females.
4. Women do not owe random men submission or subservience. The...
..scriptural discussion of wifely submission is entirely contingent upon a husband's embrace of the degree of sacrificial love and death-to-self which the same passage demands.
5. A woman may answer a call to the religious life, to marriage, or to remain single...
5. A woman may answer a call to the religious life, to marriage, or to remain single...
... without it being the business of random men to scold her for choosing in a way that upsets them.
6. A woman may receive a good education and work outside the home; it is not her duty to remain poor and uneducated lest her intelligence and accomplishments...
6. A woman may receive a good education and work outside the home; it is not her duty to remain poor and uneducated lest her intelligence and accomplishments...
...are unintentionally emasculating to men who might otherwise seek her hand in marriage.
7. The decision about whether a wife and mother should continue to work outside the home (and when, how much, etc.) is made in the home and by the family. It is not to be...
7. The decision about whether a wife and mother should continue to work outside the home (and when, how much, etc.) is made in the home and by the family. It is not to be...
...made by strangers on the Internet.
8. The use of church-approved means of natural family planning is morally licit and is made by married couples. In case of conflict they may seek the advice of pastors or spiritual directors.
9. Both men and women are called...
8. The use of church-approved means of natural family planning is morally licit and is made by married couples. In case of conflict they may seek the advice of pastors or spiritual directors.
9. Both men and women are called...
...to holiness. The basis of their fundamental equality rests on this because it is their destiny as equal children of God.
That's pretty much it. How, exactly, it makes people conclude that Christian feminists are bitter or lonely is beyond me.
That's pretty much it. How, exactly, it makes people conclude that Christian feminists are bitter or lonely is beyond me.
