Why Young Catholics Are Rejecting Feminism, Pt. 1, by Thomas V. Mirus 

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic Culture, Mar 25, 2025

Thomas V. Mirus is President of Trinity Communications and Director of Podcasts for CatholicCulture.org, hosts The Catholic Culture Podcast, and co-hosts Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast

The Wall Street Journal recently featured the relationship between Catholicism and feminism in an article by Erika Bachiochi, titled “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope”.

Bachiochi, a Catholic legal scholar and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is concerned that many young Catholics are turning away from feminism and thereby losing sight of the equal dignity of men and women. Instead of listening to the teaching of Pope St. John Paul II on the dignity of women, she says, many get their views from online anti-feminist reactionaries:

When many young Catholics today have questions about the faith, they turn to religious podcasts, or what a friend calls the Alternative Magisterium. Rather than the church’s reflection on the sexes’ equal dignity, they’ll often find something more akin to the far right’s misogynistic views, which have emerged from dark corners of the web. Popular Catholic influencers increasingly risk bringing them into the mainstream. …

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