tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post6796865785689741086..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: Was religion feminised in the 19th century?Latin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-5890447320911196072016-08-03T12:54:02.716+01:002016-08-03T12:54:02.716+01:00We all need to stop 'imagining' how the Ch...We all need to stop 'imagining' how the Church looked in former centuries, and start looking at the evidence.Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-24664470519524657642016-08-03T08:33:48.409+01:002016-08-03T08:33:48.409+01:00What a curious picture: males only in the sanctuar...What a curious picture: males only in the sanctuary, females with heads covered in the congregation - a portrait of how the Church has faithfully mirrored the patriarchal nature of most human societies. Throughout history women have generally connived at their second-class citizen status in male-dominated societies and used other means to make themselves known and get their way, but they have always I imagine made up a majority of religious practitioners, certainly the Christian variety which supposedly gives them equal status with men - St. Paul said, in Christ there is no distinction of male and female, though being the inconsistent fellow he was he also said other things suggesting something very different. It is hardly surprising, therefore, if there is a strong feminine element in our churches. The difference now is that with the rise of feminism women are getting the confidence to ask why in the church too they should continue to be second-class citizens and rewriting patriarchal theology in the process. This may in the end prove a greater challenge to traditional religion than the soppy variety of feminisation.<br /><br />Savonarolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12547523172291007631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-39209033903553735512016-08-02T16:38:15.001+01:002016-08-02T16:38:15.001+01:00The Catholic Church I grew up in the UK in the 40s...The Catholic Church I grew up in the UK in the 40s, 50s, a splendid Jesuit parish, was not feminised in any way that I or my pals noticed, and the priests were good.<br /><br />I went back about 4 years ago. The church was as splendid as ever. Mass attendance was sparse, the Jesuit priest was odd. At the sign of peace he ignored all my polite, then obvious, hints and behaved in an extremely rude and unmanly way. <br /><br />Had it been anywhere other than at Mass and in a Church, he might well have got something back to remember that occasion with. Jacobihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04743062941733814176noreply@blogger.com