Calling Catholic Women!

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Dear Ladies,
Newsweek’s columnist Anna Quindlen, a Catholic, arrogantly claims to speak for ‘Catholic women’ (her phrase, my quote marks) in her opinion of the Papacy, Church law and the Church in general. Personally, I resent this because she does not speak for me! Take a few minutes and read the following article, and if she is not speaking for you either, let Newsweek know, and pass this on to other Catholic women so we can all let her know that she does not speak for Catholic women, but for a tiny minority of Catholic women, i.e. First World Feminists.
From Newsweeks page, you can email Ms. Quindlen directly or you can email Newsweeks’ Editor.

Here are some tips when writing:

Be as brief as possible and to the point. An editor may edit your letter and your most important point may get missed.
Be respectful.

**The following links will lead you to Ms. Quindlen’s article, **

’Separate but not equal at all’
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Let’s start an Avalanche of protest! It’s time for Catholic Women to let our voices be heard to stop these feminists claiming to speak for all of us in the public forum.

**Maireteresa

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I am composing my letter now, and I wonder if anyone has the name of the young woman that PJP II gave an award to for her doctoral thesis on the role of women in the Church? I wanted to name drop in my response so I didn’t sound stupid and angel in the houselike to her!
 
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Fitz:
I am composing my letter now, and I wonder if anyone has the name of the young woman that PJP II gave an award to for her doctoral thesis on the role of women in the Church? I wanted to name drop in my response so I didn’t sound stupid and angel in the houselike to her!
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OK so now I will post what I did write. I tried to keep it short, but when I did that I didn’t get to speak my mind. Here it is:
Dear Ms. Quindlen,
I am writing in response to your article about the church and women. I think you do speak for a segment of the population, but not for all of us. I am in my 50’s and I survived the Women’s movement that was so very prevalent during my college years. I have finally just sorted out what was good about the movement and what was bad. We as a society are left with horrible scars from that time, one of which is abortion and the fracturing of the family and our church.

You are wrong in your assessment of the value the Catholic Church places on women and the involvement that women do have. It is easy for me to understand because I was also deceived by the Main Stream Media for years (you, being a part of that club). I began listening to Catholic radio stations and imagine my surprise when I realized how many women are involved in our church. There is the reality of what is happening, and then there is what MSM allows you to hear about. For instance, did you read the doctoral thesis of Dr. Pia de Solenni?

If you had perhaps you would not have to have written a sentence like this:
“But it would be nice to have a pontiff consider the role of women in the modern church out of some communication with women themselves. The very fact that anyone would be able to write such a sentence illustrates how deep the chasm is between the church of the people and the church of the hierarchy.”

I won’t make a list of influential Catholic women that the Vatican has communicated with on a regular basis, since you are an investigative journalist yourself. You are choosing to overlook the number of women that are thrilled that our new Pope Benedict XVI will carry on the traditions of a church that have lasted 2,000 years. You are insulting my religion and my beliefs.

I will just say this. You had better wake up and look around at all the women you are leaving behind with your individualist philosophy. You do not have your finger on the pulse of this country. I am a Blue state woman in a Red county and I don’t consider myself ignorant. You had better start interviewing all of us to find out the rest of the story. Sincerely,
 
Thanks for letting me know about this! I just emailed her. I never knew that she claims to be Catholic; I just knew that she is liberal. Wow, this is bad! She needs our prayers.
 
Fitz, wonderful letter! Very impressive! Great you had that research to present her with! Is the Doctorate you mentioned on the Internet, I would like to read it and send it to some ladies who I know are rethinking feminism.

Coralewisjr, you are right about prayer for Ms Quindlen. Catholic women have been very misled by our secular society and humanist thinking.
Maireteresa
 
maireteresa said:
Fitz, wonderful letter! Very impressive! Great you had that research to present her with! Is the Doctorate you mentioned on the Internet, I would like to read it and send it to some ladies who I know are rethinking feminism.
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No, I don’t have the actual thesis. She was on TV after Pope John Paul II died and I did a google search to find out who she was because I couldn’t remember her name. I think it might be nice if we stated a post and added all the names of the faithful Catholic women in public that proclaim they like our new Pope. I think it might surprise people. I do believe the MSM tries to dismiss these women, and they are getting to be a big voice.
 
Here is the response I sent her. I pray that by posting this here it may open some others to receiving the blessings that are available through releasing yourself even more fully to Christ and His Holy Church:

Dear Ms. Quindlan,

I share with you a Catholic sisterhood. Our experiences as Catholic women are very different. I was, in the ‘70s on the “feminist track” and may today be making similar statements as yours, but God had different plans for me. God opened up for me the opportunity to receive an advanced degree in Theological Studies which unfolded for me the Catholic Church teachings themselves & all their beauty, wisdom, and strength. I began to understand God’s plan for man and woman as great complement to one another and began experiencing multiple blessings through this understanding. I was able to leave behind me the bitterness and resentment which often paralyzed me, and to begin to live the abundant life which God has prepared for each of us, if we accept it.

I am not weak; I am strong, and I realize that I am vital to Christ’s mission. My diocese recognizes my gifts… (I then related to her some appointments I have been given by my bishop & several of the ways I am involved in the Church, all with respect & gratitude of clergy & the bishop.)…

I encourage you, Ms. Quindlan, to read Church documents (not commentaries on them, but the documents themselves.) I encourage you to read John Paul II’s encyclicals & his “Theology of the Body.” I encourage you to find a good priest who holds to orthodox teaching and have him open the mind of the Church to you (my own pastor has helped me many times this way.) I pray for you; that you can be free of resentment and that you can steer away from the indoctrination of relativism that we all have suffered from in this age.
 
Here’s what I sent. Oh, did I want to say more!
Ms. Quindlen,

I’m sorry to say you do not speak for Catholic women at all. Rather, you speak from the feminist/secularist agenda, which seeks to destroy femininity at our very core.

No, Catholic women are NOT naive, and if you were to get your head out of the sand you would see the trend towards orthodoxy. Women are tired of being told what is supposed to offend us, that we are to apologize for being female and embrace testosterone in whatever form we can find it.

I encourage you to study John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body”, which has been easily explained by Christopher West. It may open your eyes to the fact that men and women are different and God made us so. Women and men have separate roles in life and women ARE very much accepted in the Holy Catholic Church.

From what I understand, you claim to be Catholic. I have yet to see you speak from any point of view that represents the faith.

Personally, speaking as a Catholic woman, I am tired of putting up a front. I am tired of having to compete with men and tired of having to portray the idea that I’m supposed to do their work. I just want to be a woman. Now, please understand that I am highly educated, I have chosen careers where I have worked three times as hard as a man to do the same job (as a firefighter) and I have gone hand-to-hand with men in law enforcement. The secular world is one thing and yes, we women should fight for equality.

However, when I walk into my parish, I am accepted for who and what I am…a female Child of God. I don’t have to pretend there. I get to be the woman I was created to be and I get to learn how to be that woman in the secular world. My participation at Mass does not matter. I respect the authority of the Church which has been passed down for 2,000 years from Jesus Christ himself.

I find the Church to be the only true haven we women have left.

I would like to respectfully request that you desist from speaking on behalf of the women you don’t even seek to understand. Furthermore, if you don’t agree with the teachings of Christ, feel free to find one of the other of thousands of denominations that will fit your shopping list.

Most Catholic women do not want women to be ordained, do not believe in women’s ordination, and in fact, women have left other denominations in droves to seek out the haven of the Catholic Church when their own denominations failed them by accepting female ministers. Intelligent, educated, and knowledgeable women are seeking orthodoxy, contrary to your idea that it’s all about fear. Are these women fearful or naive by your estimation because they disagree with your assessment?

I am not angry, rather I am so saddened that you have so severely missed the point.

Please don’t try to speak for us (Catholic women) anymore. If you have something to say, say it for yourself and your own position. You may represent a minority but they will fall silent soon enough as women are seeing the fruits of such a diabolical ideology. In our intelligence and observation we women are realizing that at its core, feminism is destroying us and all we live for.

The Church, born from the side of Christ, seeks to elevate all people, women included, to the level of heaven, rather that the current culture, which seeks to bring all that is holy down to our level and desecrate it.

You are speaking on a platform all alone. Can you hear your voice echoing against the empty walls of your imagination?

Respectfully,

Julie
 
Let’s look at what mainstream society and feminism have brought us: a multi-million dollar porn industry, abortion, promiscuous sexuality and rampant STDs, hip-huggers with visible thongs, belly shirts, “wardrobe malfunctions”… And it’s the Catholic Church that devalues women? :whacky: Please pray for this woman. She’s really out of touch.
 
Here is my reply to Ms. Quindlen’s letter in Newsweek:

Dear Anna Quindlen,

Your article is just another example of Catholic women not paying attention to Christ and His teachings. Mary Magdelan’s role in the new Church was a very important one…not being a priest and knowing just what her role was, and she did. Her role was and our as women of the Church is love. They say that the mother’s love is the glue that keeps a family together, Mother Mary’s love for Jesus and her faith in God kept Salvation history on the tract for all of us. Mary Magdelan’s love for Jesus and her faith in Him kept the other 11 on track to go to the tomb and believe in the resurection. They both said ‘Yes’ to God and were present when needed. This is no small role! I am the mother of 3 beautiful children, I have a huge job to do, pass the faith of the Catholic Church down to these new souls, guiding them in the Church and through life. I am not supposed to be a priest, I need to be here teaching and loving the next generation and frankly, I have no interest in having a woman priest.

Please, do not speak for me any further, many of the women I know that are Catholic are VERY conservative and desire the Church to stay as it is, keeping the teachings as they are. “Truth does not create concensus, and concensus does not create truth” to quote Ratzinger’s “Crises in Law” paper. Abortion will always be wrong, married priest and women priests are not accepted by the large population of Catholics, homosexuality is not accepted and will always be wrong, etc.

You have it at all wrong and your time is wasted going down this road continually…pray for guidance and this time LISTEN to His words to you. Catholic women that you need to meet are not crying, we are praising God and raising life-long Catholics!

Sincerely,
Elizabeth
St. Ann’s Academy Homeschool
 
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