Catholic Caucus: The Spiritual Battle for True Womanhood. (my priest's based homily on Lindsey Clancy)

Fr. Altier emphasizes women's inherent value and strength, particularly mothers, highlighting their unique role in creation as the closest beings to God because of their capacity for love. He expresses concern about societal attitudes towards women, particularly in light of a recent case where a woman killed her children, arguing that such actions are a rejection of their divine purpose and a consequence of extreme ideologies. He criticizes the notion that women should have absolute power over life and death, drawing parallels to the biblical story of Adam and Eve and the temptation to be like God.

He further states that the decline of society and the church is linked to the erosion of women’s morality, which is seen as the foundation of both. Satan has deceived women into rejecting their true nature and embracing a masculine ideal, leading to societal imbalance and anger. Women are urged to embrace their femininity, reject Satan’s lies, and live in accordance with God’s design, emphasizing the importance of humility, charity, and love.

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First reading today that we heard from St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is basically the same reading that the church gives to us on the feast of the sacred heart of Jesus. And what church wants us to know is that we would be able if we’re rooted and grounded in love to comprehend with all the saints what’s the breadth and the length and height and depth, to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge. That’s the sacred heart of Jesus.

The sacred heart of our blessed Lord is the single highest created thing in material creation. You might look at that and say, “Well, but that’s kind of an unfair comparison to everything else because his human heart is connected to a divine person.” And so it is. So then we can look and say all right beyond that what’s next? The immaculate heart of our blessed lady. And even there you might say well but she didn’t have sin. That’s still not quite fair.

Okay. Then let’s look at creation. Go back to the first page of the Bible and you will see that in God’s creation there is an order of perfection in creation. He starts with temporal and spatial, works his way to the material, starts with the inanimate, works his way to the animate, and at the end we have the creation of the human person.

But then you look at the second chapter of Genesis and there we can look and say so who was the last being created? It is the woman. Consequently, if there is an order of perfection in creation, the most perfect being, the highest being created is a woman. Certainly recognize that as we can look at the hierarchy of heaven next to God himself who’s the highest: a woman. But even here we can look at it the same way.

So, we can start with a point that every single man in this building understands because it’s written right into your being. Look around you and ask, who are the most important people in the church right now? Let me ask it another way that everybody will understand. When the ship is going down, who do you save? Women and children because they are the most important. Every man understands that innately within himself.

We can see this even in the creation of the woman. All too often people misunderstand what God did because it says when he sees that Adam is alone, Adam has now named all the animals and there is no one for him and God says I will make a helper fit for him. It’s not necessarily a bad translation, but it doesn’t capture what it’s really there. Because for us, a helper kind of means something less than. Already seen that God created us male and female in his own image. We are equal. A woman is not less than a man in any way, shape, or form.

But if we look at the words that are there in Hebrew, it’s *etser k’negdo*. *Etser* is a helper, but not like a servant or someone less than. But what is important to understand is that this use of the word *etser* is very rare because almost everywhere else in the Bible that it is used, it is used about God. Here he is using it for the woman. So when we look at it and how it’s used with regard to God, it has to do with the rescuer, the deliverer, the source of vital strength. “God is my helper and my strong support,” the psalmist says—that’s the same word that’s used there.

And then *k’negdo* means corresponding or matching or face to face. It shows the equality. It implies the opposite. Not opposition in the sense that there is some kind of competition but opposition in the sense that there is complementarity. The strength of one is the weakness of the other. And so the woman is to be there as the strong ally of the man as he is for her. The two helping one another, the two completing one another. So that was God’s purpose in creation.

And in this when we look at what are the strengths of the male and the female, the man’s strength is in his head. The woman’s strength is in her heart. Men obviously like a woman is made to love but his strength is more of the truth. The woman on the other hand is certainly made for the truth but her strength is to love. That’s why the woman is the highest in creation because God is love. And on the human level, the one being closest to God therefore is a woman.

In that we can even break that a little further. So the heart of the woman is the closest thing to what is divine. And the heart of a mother even more so. Because with each baby that is conceived, spiritually speaking, a woman’s heart expands to be able to love more and more and more.

Now, I bring all of this up in this context because of what’s going on in America right now. I was horrified the other day. Haven’t followed any of this, but I saw there’s a woman out on the East Coast who had killed her children. And the reason that I’m bringing it up is because of a statement that was made by a woman who was on the jury, and I quote, she was talking about the man, the one man who didn’t go along with the rest of the jury. In my mind, that man’s a hero. But here’s what she said, and I quote, “He couldn’t get over the fact that she viciously killed her children.” He couldn’t get over the fact that she viciously killed her children.

Somehow 11 other human beings on that jury were able to overcome that. They were able to get beyond that was no big deal somehow. What are we doing?

Now, if you listen to the nonsense that they’re putting out there, it kind of makes me laugh in a way, because when I was young, if you said anything about a woman’s hormones, oh, look out. Now, oh, she had no control because of her hormones. Really? Now, we recognize obviously postpartum depression, for instance, is a reality. Postpartum psychosis is too. But there are lots and lots of women who have dealt with postpartum depression and their children are still alive.

You see what happens here and what really gets my goat. It’s why I’m preaching about this is because outside of that courtroom, there were 3,000 women dressed in pink saying that what this woman did was okay. And now millions of women on the internet are doing the exact same thing. Me too. Same Lindsay. Holding their babies and saying, “I agree. It’s okay for us women to kill our children.”

What’s happening here? There are two things. Number one, what happens is that in any situation, if there is something that is at the extreme and that extreme is rejected, you’re going to go to the other extreme. You can see that in Satan, for instance, he was the highest of all of the angels. And where is he now? He’s the lowest because he fell.

If a woman is the highest in material creation and she is going to reject the purpose of her creation, she’s going to go to the opposite end. Just think of what a woman looks like physically. Her body is made for life. To conceive it, to carry it, to give birth, to nourish, everything about a woman’s body is about life. The way that God made a woman’s brain to work is all about life. The way that God made a woman’s heart to operate is all about life. So if she’s going to reject that, she’s going to wind up going to the opposite end. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.

Now, some of it may be simply a matter of the logical consequences of what it is that we’ve done. Satan is really good at what he does. Really good. So, there are a couple of things that he’s done. If we look at again what he himself did, it’s exactly what he’s going to tempt us to. So, he said, “I will not serve.” But it’s not just that I will not serve. I’m going to make myself God. And isn’t that exactly what he tempted Adam and Eve with? You will be like God.

Isn’t that exactly what we have done to women? Rather than simply recognizing that they are the most like God, weak men have made them into God. And we have allowed them and given them total power over life and death. A woman has absolute control and absolute say of whether a human being living within her can live or die. Now if she has that kind of power for nine months, why shouldn’t she have that after nine months? That’s what professors out of the east coast have been arguing for years. A woman should be able to decide after being born whether that child should live or die. In this case, the oldest one is five. So when does a woman no longer have that power?

I know a lot of moms would think that it’d be not bad idea if they had it when they were teenagers, but obviously that’s not going to happen. But you see, that’s what we’ve done is we’ve allowed women to have this kind of authority and power over life and death itself. And right now, more than a quarter, 25% of all women in our society have had an abortion. And if they haven’t repented of that, then instead they’re going to celebrate it or they’re at least going to try to say that it was okay. And maybe that’s what this is. It’s just the logical consequence of women who have that kind of mindset.

I don’t know. But what I can say it is is totally contrary to what a woman is about. It is a total rejection of everything that is feminine.

Now let’s again look at it from a different perspective for a moment. About a year and a half ago, there was a man who was in the military, served in Afghanistan. Man had a severe case of PTSD. He would wake up at night screaming and he was having nightmares. He took his three children on an outing and killed them. I can guarantee you when his trial comes, you’re not going to have 3,000 soldiers standing outside saying, “But he had PTSD from the military.” And you’re not going to have anybody saying it was okay that a man killed his children. But millions of women are saying it was okay that a woman did.

Let’s look at another logical consequence of this kind of ridiculous nonsense. If we’re going to say that it was okay for this woman to do what she did because her hormones were causing this problem, then are we going to then say, “Well, we have this young woman, beautiful, innocent, walking down the street and some vile creature jumps out and violates her.” Can he go to court and say, “Your honor, my testosterone was just really high that day and I couldn’t control it. It was my hormones. I’m innocent.” No, he violated a girl. He needs to be thrown in prison and it needs to be locked up for a long time. But why is it okay goes the other way and even worse.

Now, there are some things that we need to think about in this. A woman in the way that God created her is literally the foundation of everything in this world because she is the foundation of the family. And the family is the foundation of the church and society. Satan’s not stupid. Why go after the roof? Why go after the windows or the siding? You want the house to fall down? Go after the foundation. So that’s what he did. And he’s made women to start believing things that they’re not. And it’s a horrible disservice. But it gets worse.

There was a talk that I heard from an historian back a number of years ago. This man had studied all the great civilizations throughout history, the rise and the fall. He said there are certainly similarities here and there with all of them. But he said what really astounded me is there was one thing that was universal. Every single civilization that fell there was one thing that was universal in all of them. He said the very last thing to happen before a civilization collapses is that the morals of the women go out the window. When women’s morality falls, the society falls.

Why? Number one, because it’s a rejection of themselves. Natural law is written in your heart. It is a rejection of God because he’s the one who wrote the natural law there and gave you the moral truth. It’s a rejection of the church who teaches the moral law. And so she’s the foundation of the family and society and the church. If the foundation is broken, society will fall and so will the church.

And so I can only put out a plea at this point for the women to accept and rejoice in what it is to be a woman. It is so beautiful what God has created in you. It’s Satan who doesn’t like what God has made you to be. The feminists haven’t done you any favors. It’s all upside down.

God gave you a heart to love, to be like our Lord like his sacred heart. When we look at the heart of a woman who is the highest which is our lady, what do we see but humility because her charity is equal to her humility. What did we hear at the end of the gospel? Those who humble themselves will be exalted, but those who exalt themselves will be humbled. We have angry women who are exalting themselves. It’s ugly.

Let me just take a step back and look at why it’s there. It’s because Satan put out a lie. And the lie was that women are not equal to men. In a society that only understands equality as being mathematical, we look at a male and a female and set them next to one another, they don’t look the same. We say, “Right, so one doesn’t look like a two and a two doesn’t look like a three because they’re not equal.” And so if a woman is not equal to a man, what does she need to do to become equal? She needs to become a man. How gross. Why would you want to lower yourself that way? But that’s what happened.

You started acting like men, talking like men, being gross like men. But guess what? Women are relational. They are in 100% control of the relationship. And when women decided to become men, nature abhors a vacuum. And so the men became women. And it is really gross and disgusting. And so we have all these effeminate men running around. We have all these masculine women running around and what happens? They’re all angry. Of course they are because they’re not being who they were created to be.

So we need men to finally stand up and be men. But we need women to stand up and be women. Quit trying to be equal because you already are. So your attempt to become equal is only making you unequal. Reject Satan’s lie. Look at God’s truth. It’s right there on the very first page of the Bible. And as I pointed out to you on the second page of the Bible, the word that God used for the creation of the woman is a word that is otherwise only used for God. How exalted is the woman? The highest in material creation.

But where we are now, the Latins had a little phrase: *corruptio optimi pessima* — the corruption of the best is the worst. That’s what Satan has managed to bring about. And if we allow it, we’re going to see the collapse of the family which we are seeing, of the society which we are seeing, of the church which we are seeing.

How do we get it back on the right track? Be who you were created to be. It’s going to require women to accept what it is to be a woman, to embrace it, to rejoice in it because it is so beautiful. Because you are the highest in God’s creation. Live it. It is exactly what our world needs right now. Open your beautiful heart to your husband, to your children, to the world even. Keep it open to our blessed Lord. He wants you to have this knowledge, this love which surpasses all knowledge. You can only have that when you’re in your heart. This is the genius of a woman. And it is exactly what God wants for you.

Satan hates women. He’s going to get his ugly head squished by one. And he knows it. So he wants to destroy you. How do you destroy him? Be humble and be charitable. Be a woman. Love. That’s how you do this.

So that’s the option. We either have men and women being who we were created to be, which is the highest in creation, material creation, the women being the most perfect, the two, yes, radically equal, the two complementing one another, the two helping one another to be able to grow. That’s what we’re supposed to be. Not working against one another. So we can build one another up and we can build up the society. We can build up the church and we can be filled with the very fullness of God.

Or we can have the opposite, which is exactly what we’re seeing. Millions of women acting in a way that is completely contrary to how they were created to be. Millions of women who have closed their hearts to God and to themselves, to their children, to life. Those are our choices.

The world, as I keep saying, needs saints. What are saints? They’re people who are like God. And what is God? God is love. That is the strength of the woman. If we don’t have that and we buy Satan’s lie, then we are going to live that latin phrase *corruptio optimi pessima*, the corruption of the best is the worst.

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