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Why Forcing Equality of the Sexes Leads to Civilizational Chaos

Mary Brittnacher

Our country is rich enough to avoid the consequences of living against the natural order. But, in reality, patriarchy is the only kind of society that will work.

Literal Testosterone to Figurative Estrogen

John Lyon

Leon Podles describes the tension between masculinity and Christianity, and aims to scope out the likely role of men in the future of the Church.

A “Deeper Understanding” of the Priesthood?

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

No temporal or civilizational events can override the sacramental necessity of the Catholic priesthood’s being reserved to men.

Is the Future "Female"?

DOES THE CHURCH OPPRESS WOMEN ?

Frederick W. Marks

It's simply untrue that women were suppressed across Christendom and through the so-called Dark Ages and Middle Ages until religion lost its grip on the West.

The Femi-Swedes' Hijab Détente

Sweden's "first feminist government" sent a delegation to sign a trade deal in Iran, where the women felt compelled to wear headscarves and heavy coats.

The Rise of the "All-Conquering Female"

GUEST COLUMN

Robert Barron

In movies today, it is not enough to show women as intelligent, savvy, and good; they have to portray men as stupid, witless, and irresponsible.

Women's Indispensable Role in the Redemption of Mankind

Stephen J. Kovacs

As seen in Mary, women have unique authority as "the source of life in relation to [Christ] in the completion of the New Covenant."

The Toxic Effects of "Rape-Culture Feminism"

ONE IN FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN SUBJECT TO ASSAULT?

Jeffrey R. Jackson

All students need some measure of discipline, one that deters situations from which rape allegations would arise.

Feminists: The Worst Misogynists?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Feminists have brought a tsunami of misery upon members of their own sex with their in­human mantra, "blessed are the barren."

Man-Child in the Promised Land

Video games, superhero movies, and comic-book conventions are marketed to grown men, who comprise a significant portion of consumers of such products.

Sister Act

The Vatican just wants to see Catholic nuns abiding by the norms of the Church without undermining her teachings or thumbing their noses at legitimate religious authority. Is this a surprise?

The Wages of Motherhood

Viewed from the perspective of home and community, there's so much value attached to the work of stay-at-home mothers, that we've only just begun to count the cost of losing them to the workplace.

Femi-Nuns in the Echo-Chamber

Mainstream news reports of the Vatican's 'Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' reported on what the nuns say they see as the controversy, rather than on the controversy itself.

In the Beginning Was "Power"?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Anne Barbeau Gardiner takes on an author who has "made a career of treating the Bible sacrilegiously" and sees power, not Logos, as the ultimate reality.

Feminists Are Wrong About Women's Ordination

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

The reservation of the priesthood to men is not a matter of "discipline" or Church law that may be rescinded but is "theologically certain" and a "doctrine of faith."

Apostatizing in Place

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Feminists found "a way to leave and stay at the same time." They created Women-Church, opting for part identification with and part struggle against Catholicism.

Worshiping the Idol of 'Woman's Experience'

AN EASY, SMOOTH DESCENT INTO APOSTASY

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

This ideology leads to giving private approval of abortion, and from there to giving material cooperation and a public voice to the Culture of Death.

Surprise! Femi-nuns Find Themsleves Under the Microscope

The nation's largest organization of administrators of women's religious orders is also being investigated by the Vatican.

Song of the Boo-Birds

It's official: The Holy See will undertake an apostolic visitation of women's religious orders in the United States -- but about 30 years too late.

Women's Revenge: To Torture Without Guilt

BATTLE STRATEGIES OF THE SEXES

Alice von Hildebrand

Literature offers many examples highlighting the fact that, in very subtle ways, men can be victimized -- even “tortured” -- by the fair sex.

On Retreat With Sister Rupp

EXERCISES IN TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Ginger Hutton

This popular author and conference speaker, with a master’s in transpersonal psychology, is an evangelist for New Age syncretism.

The Last Judgment of Betty Fryingpan

'I EMPOWERED WOMEN'

Richard Anderson

The founder of a major pro-abortion group, one who spent a lifetime spitting on Catholic principles, at life's end approaches the Celestial Bench...

Margaret Sanger & 'The New Woman'

HER CAUSE WAS A DIRE NECESSITY

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Margaret Sanger worked to overturn the laws against obscenity, birth control, and abortion mainly because her secret lifestyle made all these things necessary.

Where Are the Men?

GUEST COLUMN

Donald Tremblay

The needs and desires of the lapsed male Catholic are alien to most clergy, as evidenced by the typical outreach programs they suggest.

It's Always the Man's Fault

THE RISE OF 'DOMESTIC DIVAS'

Jeffrey R. Jackson

How can men, who are forced to compete against women, still serve as family breadwinners in these conditions? Do American women want this?

America's Increasingly Feminist and Homosexual Military

Bush's military isn't reconsidering the feminist experiment devised under Bill Clinton; it is completing it.

Freedom Trumps Family

"Money is power." And, boy, do these feminists want money.

Most Children Already Have Two "Fathers"

Thanks to feminism, being a "good mother" has become being a "good father."

The Weaker Sex

GUEST COLUMN

Lisa Lavadores

Many Catholics disfigure pronouns so as to support the fragile female and her vulnerability to the dread Generic Masculine.

Vive la Différence!

Dale Vree

Review of God or Goddess? Feminist Theology: What Is It? Where Does It Lead?

My Road from Gender Feminism to Catholicism

FROM "FEELINGS" TO OBJECTIVE TRUTH

Kimberley Manning

I became a Catholic because I sought objective Truth, a Truth that leaves both feminism and Protestantism in the dust.

The Time of Reckoning for Women's Liberation

WE FORGOT THE FUTURE & OUR CHILDREN

Zoe Deen

Celibacy for Career Women?

GUEST COLUMN

Frederick Sontag

Christian Feminism: Progress or Regression?

Ronda Chervin

How are we to heal society and the church of negative “masculine” qualities, if not through the love of Christ which comes in the sacraments and prayer?

Weaknesses of Feminist Theology

IS “GOD THE MOTHER” JUST AS GOOD?

Juli Loesch

An intelligent group like feminist theologians could manufacture six or seven attractive religious ideas in any given morning, and then invent a sacrament or two over lunch.

Can a Political Conservative Be a Christian?

A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES

James J. Thompson Jr.

The Christian conservative must not subsume his religion under his politics and thereby pervert a timeless Gospel into an ideological weapon.

On Women’s Liberation

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

The significance of the biological distinctions between men and women, amplified by centuries of religiously and culturally encouraged differences, are not to be altogether scorned.