Vatican Official: Migrants Can Teach Western Women How to ‘Be Feminine Mothers’ (??!!?)

Breitbart News ^ | 11-12-2018 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

[Sir Napsalot]

Migrant mothers can teach Western women “to be both a feminine woman and to be mothers,” because of their unique experience of motherhood, a Vatican official said this weekend.

Gabriella Gambino, one of the highest-ranking women in the Vatican Curia, said that mothers in Western countries often have difficulty being both “woman and mother,” while migrant mothers more easily integrate these different dimensions.

Migrant women “are a bit of a prototype of a motherhood completely different, a motherhood lived in its essence, in the feminine dimension,” Gambino said at a November 9 book presentation in Rome.

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Ms. Gambino, who is a mother of five and undersecretary for the “life” section of the Vatican department for Laity, Family, and Life, said that that women migrants “are those who, especially from African countries, live with violence but who can offer the world their motherhood, they are women who truly know how to live motherhood as having, not doing.”

This essential grasp of motherhood is more difficult in the West, Gambino said, because of a post-modern feminist emphasis on independence and productivity.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

1. those women needing to be taught are of the 3rd wave feminist, man-hating persuasion (iow, leftists).
2. the women doing the “teaching” come from a non-Muslim based cultures.

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[Mrs. Don-o]

???

I didn’t say that.

???

I pointed out that she was an Italian mother of five. Not, as some FReepers assumed, a cleric or a celibate.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"The article described Muslim cultural feminism"

I wonder how you get that? There's nothing there indicating specifying Muslim, and it's certainly feminism, as far as I can see. If I had to characterizze it, I'd describe it as 3rd (or 4th) world and non-feminist.

[Mrs. Don-o]

OOps, I meant “certainly NOT feminism.”

Grrrr...

[familyop]

"Silly me——I actually thought that BECOMING a mother was absolute proof of femininity."

Things have been getting pretty weird for long time, though.

Sinéad O'Connor

[familyop]

[zanarchist]

No the article said she was the top woman at the Vatican.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"She's the top woman at the Vatican."

Right. I get that.

"So that means nothing?"

????

What's your point? I didn't say that.

[Lurker]

They must be running out of Italian adolescent boys to molest at the Vatican. So they need to import a bunch.

L

[Louis Foxwell]

Semantics. I was using the word feminism in its generic sense, before the word’s takeover by leftists.