Name of Catholic Church doctrine declaring women subordinate?

Question

I can't remember the Latin name. Anybody know?

Answer 1

I don't know about the Catholic doctrine. Just these three:

Jerry Falwell:
Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc. are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority!
"Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."


Pat Robertson:
"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is!"

James Dobson: Focus on the Family
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."

Now add the Catholic and Whomever!

Answer 2

--is Catholic--

If you go to an ancient Roman graveyard, how can you tell the Catholic graves from the non-Catholic graves? The Catholic ones list the females, wives and daughters, not simply the men.

The poster 3 above Barrett G quotes from the Catholic Encyclopedia and does so out of context. The sentence directly above his quote is this

>>>To deduce from this the inferiority of woman or her degredation to a "second-rate human being" contradicts logic just as much as would the attempt to regard the citizen as an inferior being because he is subordinate to the officials of the state. >>>>

Please read the text in full here
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15687b.htm

It should be noted that there is a MAJOR difference between the Catholic teaching on the dignity of women and the Reformation teaching (every man for God every woman for her man etc.). If we read the text in full, we see that women are very independent and have a separate sphere than men. When the Church speaks of man being the head of the family, and note this is only when talking about the family structure, woman is described as the heart of the family. It is impossible to have one with out the other. However a woman doesn't need a husband in the Catholic understanding. There are other paths open to her and not simply motherhood.

(as a side note, if you read old texts, men/man doesn't necessarily mean the male sex, much of the time it refers to humanity in general (both men and women). Pay attention to the context.)

Answer 3

Any doctrine that subordinates women -- Catholic or otherwise -- has the latin term Bullcrappus Ignorantus. I think the literal translation is something like "What century are you living in, you little insecure man?"
(BTW, I'm a guy.)

Answer 4

A lot of antiquated Christian religions hold this belief. They take the justification for it right out of the bible. Example follows;

It should be emphasized here that man owes his authoritative pre-eminence in society not to personal achievements but to the appointment of the Creator according to the world of the Apostle: "The man . . . is the image and glory of god; but the woman is the glory of the man" (1 Corinthians 11:7). The Apostle in this reference to the creation of the first human pair presupposes the image of God in the woman. As this likeness manifests itself exteriorly in man's supremacy over creation (Genesis 1:26), and as man as the born leader of the family first exercised this supremacy, he is called directly God's image in this capacity. Woman takes part in this supremacy only indirectly under the guidance of the man and as his helpmeet. It is impossible to limit the Pauline statement to the single family; and the Apostle himself inferred from this the social position of woman in the Church community. Thus her natural position is assigned to woman in every form of society that springs necessarily from the family. This position is described by St. Thomas Aquinas with classic clearness (Summa theol., I:92:1, ad 2um). This doctrine, which has always been maintained by the Catholic Church, was repeatedly emphasized by Leo XIII. The encyclical "Arcanum", 10 February, 1880, declares: "The husband is ruler of the family and the head of the wife; the woman as flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone is to be subordinate and obedient to the husband, not, however, as a hand-maid but as a companion of such a kind that the obedience given is as honourable as dignified. As, however, the husband ruling represents the image of Christ and the wife obedient the image of the Church, Divine love should at all times set the standard of duty".

Of course, like many Christian religions, the context of these passages was interpreted to benefit the hierarchy of men. Even to the extent of removing books from the bible as the Catholic church decided what was heresy and what was gospel.

Answer 5

Other than following the example of Jesus Christ in not ordaining women, sexism is against the teaching the Catholic Church:

Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity.

The equality of men and women rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it:

Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

There's nothing like that in Catholic doctrine since Vatican II.

Answer 7

I've read the Vatican II publications....never saw anything refering to woman as being "subordinate."

Answer 8

At a guess I would say you were a muslim looking for some evidence to argue against christianity in some way.

Am I correct?