Catholics ought to be loud and proud in the fight for women’s rights, argues a young feminist.
I still remember the first time I heard a friend utter the words I considered near blasphemy: “I’m not a feminist.” I was shocked. We were bright junior high girls in the age of the Spice Girls’ “girl power,” and I, for one, had been raised a feminist by a 1960s feminist mother.
Megan Sweas is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.
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