The Feminization of the Catholic Church

Tradition In Action ^ | 2009 | Marian T. Horvat, Ph.D.

[Cronos]

Note — this thread has no links, no references. It purports to be a dissertation or something by some Phd and yet there is no way to affirm this or even to identify if we have permission to reprint this on FreeRepublic.com

[DarkSavant]

Catholic men are taught to be wimps. Jesus was a nice guy right?

It starts with a weak father figure who were too weak to truly run a household or limp-wristed schooling. Then the next generation is even weaker than the previous. It takes a massive upheaval to reverse the trend.

Go to any youth group and you'll see, as C.S. Lewis puts it, "Men Without Chests". They think people liking you is more important than people respecting you. If the men are too wussy to be men, women will fill the void. Just look at the new outpouring of female conservatives with more balls than most of the men. When women have to be the men, something is horribly wrong in your culture.

[Cronos]

you’re in luck — with Pope Benedict’s impulse, the Traditionalist mass and much of tradition is coming back. Though to be honest, I don’t see the problem with altar girls..

[miss marmelstein]

My husband was an altar boy in the early 60s. His main memory is being clouted on the head ‘cause he goofed up during the Mass. The priests were tough in those days.

[Cronos]

Chris Christie is Catholic and he isn't a wimp.

Yes, as Catholics we are probably too nice to folks who attack the Faith, but "feminization"? Naaah.

[Cronos]

when I was an altarboy we had a sacristan who had been around since 1943 and he even bullied the priests who had been altar-boys themselves and remembered old Roger the sacristan telling them to follow decorum!

[oh8eleven]

The priests were tough in those days.
When I was a kid (50s), we had a parish priest who was a WWII vet and talked to us like we were his troops.
He caught one kid picking his nose and threatened, "If I see you do that again, I'll break off your arm and hit you with the bloody end of it."
They DO NOT make priests like that anymore. LOL ...

[netmilsmom]

Another Schism website.

What do you call a “Catholic” who protests Catholicism?

[Cronos]

hmmm... a "Catholic" who protests Catholicism...

hmm....

ooooh, oooh! I get it - a Protestotismist?

[coop71]

Wow. You are really far off the target with your statements to that poster. Really, really far off.

[netmilsmom]

;)

[RBIEL2]

Poster of thread has history of witholding story sources/hosted links to control debate.

[RBIEL2]

ooops looks like situation corrected; my comment is tardy

[steve86]

Good insights.

[verdugo]

Very good response. But I didn't see the author extolling the Amchurch of the 1940-50’s. I certainly never have extolled it, I agree with what you wrote. While there were effeminates and progressivist before Vatican II (or else there would not have existed any at VatII), what the author is saying, is that Vatican II official opened the door to the effeminates and progressivists TOTAL takeover.

[verdugo]

Please explain what you mean? I think you misread my posting.

[Tax-chick]

This is a parody, right? (The whole article was a parody, right?)

I was quoting words from the article. If the article is suitable to be on the screen, then so is my comment.

Merciful heavens to Betsy! (Sorry, Betsy ...) I thought *I* lived in a bubble of humorless oversensitivity, but I was so wrong about that.

[mockingbyrd]

Tax Chick is one of our wittiest posters here on Free Republic. I hope my children can gleam some from her. And it is YOUR responsibility to monitor what your children see on the computer, not TC. But you can thank her for growing their vocabulary.

Oh, and Tax Chick has you TOTALLY beat in the kids department.

[mockingbyrd]

oh snap!

[steve86]

I refuse to go to my in-laws Catholic events (Confirmation, etc.)

I hear you. Why attend when the disgust and aversion you feel could lead to a weakening of your own faith? In fact, we are prohibited from knowingly placing our faith in jeopardy. I used to stand in the vestibule as sort of a compromise but no more. The angst from even standing 100 yards away got to be too much. And I wasn't far enough away to avoid the assaults of the more aggressive 'peace be with you' operatives.