[markomalley]

Clearly, Msgr Pope hasn't adopted the demands of the UN in their recent report that clearly states: 28. The Committee urges the Holy See to adopt a rights-based approach to address discrimination between girls and boys and refrain from using terminology that could challenge equality between girls and boys...

(/sarc)

[markomalley]

Msgr Pope ping (a continuation from yesterday’s reflection)

[Biggirl]

By what I have seen, this teaching applies a lot in regards to women who are married. What about those women who are single and are a part of their parishes. This also applies to them too?

[Biggirl]

Yet the sweet irony of it all is that, Paul in addressing the Galations also says, “neither there is Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female.”

[icwhatudo]

Nice message but..when Catholic schools and books, approved by the Bishops, are teaching little children that Adam and Eve are a Myth on the same level as the Easter bunny, its a struggle.

[NYer]

Ping!

[xzins]

This is an excellent reflection in my opinion.

First, Paul does highlight a distinction between the sins of Adam and Eve. Basically, Eve was deceived and Adam just flat out disobeyed. Eve could hide behind a sin of ignorance, and Adam could not. The reason for that might well have been her beauty. I’ve thought as well that it might have been his protective nature....if she’s going down then so am I. In other words, he sided with her despite the cost.

This would explain in some measure God’s subjecting her to him. One would think it would be the other way around: deceived versus rebellion. Even though Adam was culpable, he was culpable in the way a starving man is culpable for stealing bread to feed his family.

I also liked his point about female led churches being more likely to be moving toward apostasy.

This comports with the churches of Pergamum and Thyratira in Revelation’s “Letters to the Churches”.

[Tax-chick]

I agree with him, pretty much.

However, reflection along these lines ... “feminine beauty and mystique” ... can easily lead to the Moslem position: that men are controlled by sexual lust to such an extent that women, simply because they exist, are responsible for all men’s actions.

[annalex]

It should perhaps be noted that the enmity between the woman and Satan (Genesis 3:15) gives the woman in our life a special defensive role. And indeed, as I look around myself I see women, rather than men, to be the guardians of the moral content of the family life.