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Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope St. John Paul II, baptizes a child in a file photo from 1971. (photo: Archdiocese of Kracow/CNA)
By Judy Landrieu Klein, National Catholic Register,
Judy Landrieu Klein, Ph.D., is an author, theologian and inspirational speaker who holds a license in clinical pastoral counseling. A mother of five, grandmother of 14 and great-grandmother of two, she works with her husband, Mark Gelis, Ph.D., at My Father’s House Counseling Services in Mandeville, Louisiana. Her books include Miracle Man and Mary’s Way: The Power of Entrusting Your Child to God.
COMMENTARY: Authentic feminism, as envisioned by John Paul II, empowers women to embrace their unique role in building a civilization of love.
Has feminism offered society a positive contribution? Or has it, as Carrie Gress says in her new book, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us, been so corrupt from its inception that it must be “slayed” as an “ideological dragon?”
Is there such a thing as “authentic feminism,” or is the tree of “feminism,” which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes,” so rotten at its core that it must be cut down completely?
Before I address those questions, let me begin by saying that the history and impact of feminism that Gress presents in her book, particularly the “second wave” of feminism that came forth in the 1960s as a push for women’s equality in the workplace and for reproductive rights, rang extremely true to my own experience. …
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