POPE FRANCIS IS A MALE CHAUVINIST
Laurie Goodstein of the NEW YORK TIMES followed up her fine news story about the pope's interview ("Pope Says Church Is "Obsessed' with Gays, Abortion and Birth control," dated September 19, 2013) with another article in which she selects certain excerpts from the interview, giving the question he was asked before giving his response. As she notes, he was asked about the role of women in the church. Here is the excerpt with his response that she includes in her article "An Interview with Pope Francis" (dated
"I am wary of a solution that can be reduced to a kind of "female machismo,' because a woman has a different makeup than a man. But what I hear about the role of women is often inspired by an ideology of machismo. Women are asking deep questions that must be addressed. The church cannot be herself without the woman and her role. The woman is essential for the church. Mary, a woman, is more important than the bishops. I say this because we must not confuse the function with the dignity. We must therefore investigate further the role of women in the church. We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of the woman. Only by making this step will it be possible to better reflect on their function within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions. The challenge today is this: to think about the specific place of women also in those places where the authority of the church is exercised for various arenas of the church."
Give the man a prize for out-doing the
The man is a male chauvinist if ever there was one. He's against the ideology of female machismo, because he favors the ideology of male machismo that has dominated the Roman Catholic Church in recent centuries.
So should the Roman Catholic Church be renamed the Roman Catholic Church of Male Patriarchy, or the Roman Catholic Church of Male Chauvinism, or the Roman Catholic Church of Male Machismo?
Granted, at least Pope Francis appears to speak positively about the "essential" role of women in the church. Indeed, if all the Catholic women around the world today abandoned the church, there would not be many practicing Catholics left.
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