Once again, with feeling:
The reactionary, anti-Francis movement that is poisoning the Catholic Church is divorced from reality, history, human decency, common sense, cultural progress, civil rights, the common good, and God's will.
crisismagazine.com/2020/against-w…
The reactionary, anti-Francis movement that is poisoning the Catholic Church is divorced from reality, history, human decency, common sense, cultural progress, civil rights, the common good, and God's will.
crisismagazine.com/2020/against-w…
No, the title is not satire (as I'd hoped):
"any sober and dispassionate mind must conclude that giving ladies the right to vote was the single greatest catastrophe in the history of our storied republic."
"any sober and dispassionate mind must conclude that giving ladies the right to vote was the single greatest catastrophe in the history of our storied republic."
Oh it gets worse:
"Does anyone—conservative or progressive—believe that our laws have become more sound, and our government more useful, over the last one hundred years? If not, we should do one really sound and sensible thing: take away women’s right to vote."
"Does anyone—conservative or progressive—believe that our laws have become more sound, and our government more useful, over the last one hundred years? If not, we should do one really sound and sensible thing: take away women’s right to vote."
And worse:
"It was a return to the dark, Hobbesian view of society as the bellum omnium contra omnes: an endless, all-consuming struggle between men and women for privilege and power. The sanctuary of the hearth was abolished entirely."
"It was a return to the dark, Hobbesian view of society as the bellum omnium contra omnes: an endless, all-consuming struggle between men and women for privilege and power. The sanctuary of the hearth was abolished entirely."
And (creepy) worse:
"once the carnal act is complete, both parties become totally irrelevant. Jill can happily frolic with Jack out by the well, knowing that if she should fall pregnant there exists a massive welfare apparatus to support her. Or she can simply abort the child."
"once the carnal act is complete, both parties become totally irrelevant. Jill can happily frolic with Jack out by the well, knowing that if she should fall pregnant there exists a massive welfare apparatus to support her. Or she can simply abort the child."
I cannot BELIEVE that this article is a thing that exists in reality. Today. Literally. August 18, 2020. Don't let the old-timey photo throw you.
There are no limits -- there are no words.
There are no limits -- there are no words.
Yes, it's always been conservative, but this is a magazine to which WALKER PERCY, MSGR GEORGE HIGGINS, and some serious academics (including many women) once contributed.
The Catholic far-right complains that the left is tearing down their institutions, but it looks to me like they are doing a great job of tearing them down themselves.
I JUST DISCOVERED THE COMMENTS
In their dystopian alternate timeline, apparently all single women are nuns, harlots, servants, or asymptomatic carriers of typhoid.
