Posted on 09/30/2006 5:50:46 PM PDT by Salvation
Is the writer a modernist? (just something to ponder.)
St. Jerome's feast day is today, BTW.
Saint Jerome: Doctor Of Biblical Studies
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Men can't be feminists.
Pshaw. Do you know how many men nowadays call themselves feminists?
That said, I would rather call St. Jerome something else. Feminist is a dirty word to me.
I wouldn't say that St. Jerome was a 'feminist' simply that he acted as Christ did; treated women as equals in the sight of God to men.
I think it would be better to call him a good Catholic.
One of the funniest things I ever read was his tirade to on woman about the guy she wanted to marry. He sounded like a dad gone over the edge.
I read Christina Hoff-Somers book and I call myself a feminist to stir up conversation. I still feel weird calling myself a feminist. It sounds like feminazi *LOL*
No.
No no no no no.
It never ceases to amaze me how far some people will go to project modern mindsets and systems of thoughts on people who lived among entirely different world views.
Why can't people accept that the man simply lived in the imitation of Christ?
I am a dedicated anti-feminist (as feminism is defined in today's world). When I look at what the second-wavers have done to society, I want to wretch.
There's a great quote of St. Jerome's I once used in a letter to the editor. It was taken from a letter to a Roman matron who had written to him about the difficulty of helping her young son learn to read. St. Jerome suggested she have some small blocks made and the letters put on those blocks so the child could, "make play a road to learning." I would say he was a very wise and kind man.
What would you say then? I thought he was more like an instructor.
Can men be feministic?
**Why can't people accept that the man simply lived in the imitation of Christ?**
Excellent question.
Sounds like a great quote. Almost Montessori like.
A little self-profile of Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P. - I presume it is the same young man:
From the article's content, I think he just wrote a headline and introduced the subject in a manner that might intrigue a current day reader unfamiliar with that aspect of Jerome's life. There's no hint of "since Jerome did x, we should go a step further and do y".
Thanks for that -- a former Baptist who converted. No modernist there in my judgment.
What a wonderful man. He did seem to be ahead of his time.
We also studied the martydom of those holy women celebrated in the Canon of the Mass: Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia and Anastasia. Fascinating stuff!
That's why I get burned up when I hear that the Church is anti-woman!
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