By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, March 4, 2024
Sheryl Collmer is an independent consultant for several non-profit organizations. She holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas, as well as an MBA. From her home in the diocese of Tyler, Texas, she studies homesteading, history, and the currents in the Church.
We hardly know how to measure strong women anymore; modern feminism has so bent the rules. Feminism, once a virtuous philosophy worthy of St. Edith Stein and St. John Paul II, has become a cesspool that Catholics, women and men, instinctively avoid. So, is the tale of a particularly strong woman, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who set in motion more genuine help for those in need than anyone in this country’s history, a “feminist” tale?
I think not, and here’s why. Feminism, as we understand the movement today, is self-promoting, grasping at awards rather than rewards, and allowing for the elimination of anyone who would get in the way, even accidentally—like an unborn child. Modern feminism is a spirit of combat and taking rather than love and giving. It’s a land grab.
Not so Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint and the subject of a new film, Cabrini, distributed by Angel Studios. …