What to tell friend about Church view on holiness of women vs. men

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A friend attended a Catholic college in the mid 70s. A teacher there told her that “it is in the Catechism of the Catholic Church” that women can never attain the same level of holiness as men. Huh??

She struggles with a lot of Catholic doctrine, and this sort of comment has not made it any easier for her. How to debunk this? Is there something in the CCC about men, women and holiness that could have been somehow miscommunicated to her?
 
Probably a reference to the fact that women can not become priests. But that is not the same thing as saying women can not attain the same level of holiness as men. That is pure claptrap.
 
Considering the most person to ever exist aside from Jesus was a woman I would say this teacher was a little off base.
 
considering the CCC was published in the 90s what catechism was she citing from? Baltimore catechism, Trent? It is impossible to critique a comment recalled from memory over 30 years ago. Best place to start is what does the Church teach about women now.
I have linked this
vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_15081988_mulieris-dignitatem_en.html
letter of Pope John Paul II on the dignity of women at least twice in recent days on similar threads, so search for those threads and find more ammunition.
 
Your friend has probably matured in so many good ways…in so many other areas of her life…since 1970. She needs to take an honest assessment of why she has not matured in her Catholic faith and in her understanding of the Church’s teachings.

Here is the answer to her question oh holiness…it has nothing to do with gender or vocation in life…it has to do with union with Christ…charity and climbing to the summit of Calvary.

Pax Christi
CATECHISM OF CATHOLIC CHURCH
2013 "All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity."65 All are called to holiness: "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."66
In order to reach this perfection the faithful should use the strength dealt out to them by Christ’s gift, so that . . . doing the will of the Father in everything, they may wholeheartedly devote themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their neighbor. Thus the holiness of the People of God will grow in fruitful abundance, as is clearly shown in the history of the Church through the lives of so many saints.67

2014 Spiritual progress tends toward ever more intimate union with Christ. This union is called “mystical” because it participates in the mystery of Christ through the sacraments - “the holy mysteries” - and, in him, in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. God calls us all to this intimate union with him, even if the special graces or extraordinary signs of this mystical life are granted only to some for the sake of manifesting the gratuitous gift given to all.

2015 The way of perfection passes by way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle.68 Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes:
He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows.69
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There is only one form of sanctity which is the flowering of the seed planted at baptism. All are called to the full perfection of charity and if this should be attained so that we may pass from death to the beatific vision immeditately.
Great graces are given to the priest in order to ejecute the sacred vocation he has been given yet it is not necessary to salvation for all men. Great graces may be given, but it would be horrendous if you rejected them.

There is no excuse for anyone not to attain to this true flowering of charity. All men and women without exception are called to it.
 
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