Charlotte Allen has an interesting take on the deaths of super-feminist theologian Mary Daly, who died January 3, and Vatican II peritus Edward Schillebeeckx in the Wall Street Journal: For her, their passing marks flaming out of Catholic "dissent," and they have no one to take their places.
Along with graduation speakers, the other big fight on Catholic campuses (brought to us by the Cardinal Newman Society, of course) is around The Vagina Monologues. Now, Catholic News Agency reports, there’s a theatrical alternative to Eve Ensler’s provocative one-woman play: The Vitae Monologues.
L’Osservatore Romano celebrated International Women’s Day in March by publishing an article that declared the washing machine the most liberating advancement of the 20th century for women.
"The debate is heated. Some say the pill, some say abortion rights, and some the right to work outside the home. Some, however, dare to go further: the washing machine," the article read, according to Reuters.
Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris is the "macho [man] of the year," according to a French feminist group (see the AFP report).
The cardinal won the title for saying it was difficult to find women who are properly trained for church jobs: "It's not enough to have a skirt, you have to have something between your ears as well."
Women are prideful and men are lustful, generalizes a report on sin and gender.
The report's conclusions are based on a survey of Confessions heard by Father Robert Busa, a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar. As reported in L'Osservatore Romano, the order of sins that men face are lust, gluttony, sloth, anger, pride, envy, and greed. For women it's pride, envy, anger, lust, and sloth.
Syafa Almirzanah, a professor of comparative religion at Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, could have continued her studies anywhere in the Muslim world, but she chose Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Last spring she became the first Muslim to earn a doctorate from the school.
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