What do you think about women and Catholicism?

Question

Please do not be offended by my questions, I am simply asking as an observor who was raised Catholic.
Do you think that there is a proper place for women in Catholicism?
I think that women are a side note - that the bible and theological answers are for supporting a patriachal society.
What do you think women's role is in Catholicism?
Is there a sense of equality?
Can women expect equality only in a domestic and reproductive atmosphere?

I am not as concerned about the priesthood.... I had 13 years of studying the Catholic Doctrine.

Answer 1

I too was raised Catholic - nothing will turn a person into an aethiest faster than being raised Catholic.

American/Canadian and Western European women get around the problem by just choosing from the 'menu' what they like, and reject the rest. It's a 'do-it-yourself' approach in a 'do-it-yourself' world. These women are far more empowered than their Latino and African counterparts - and ohhhhh, those poor women really did get the shitty end of the stick, now didn't they? What a perfectly horrific life!

Answer 2

Though priesthood is for men, there is a place for women in the religious life, as Sisters..who play an extremely important role in the world..
Women are not treated unfairly in the Catholic Church..and I have no idea what has made you come up with this idea..unless your basing it solely on the issue of the priesthood...(and this rule concerning priesthood is not unique of the Catholic Church..there is also a REASON that only men are priests, and only women are Sisters..if you would look into that)

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--so you arent concerned about the priesthood..im not exactly sure what you ARE concerned about. ive never seen the atmosphere as being solely domestic and reproductive.

Answer 3

The role of mothers in cathlicism is as good partners and good mothers, while the role of men is to bond with a wife and tend to her. Relationships with the "patriarchal" catholic setting are the healthiests and the strongest. I wouldnt marry any woman which sees the bible as zhe evil written by men.

Answer 4

in your concern about the role of women as catholism,is that women has a big role in that church why because of one extraordinary attitude wherein you mostly see it to the women such as being devoted.Equality there is always applied but some of us is taking for granted being the member of catholicism they became passive and they give important to materialistic things so maybe they don't see the essence of the Catholicism and others convert to other religion the one reason is they don't understand the scripture or the deeper meaning of it because they have weak faith per se.

Answer 5

Yep. Don't really understand myself how or why women can want to be Catholic. Women in the faith obviously can't expect equality; they're not even supposed to use birth control, an absurd restriction that needs to be changed because it's utterly impractical and senseless to *not* use birth control in America today.

No doubt the church's condom ban is contributing to one of the worst public health crises in the world, which is AIDS: http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1059068,00.html ; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20999747/ ; http://www.aegis.com/news/ips/1996/IP960901.html .

Pretty irresponsible and f'd up, if you ask me.

Answer 6

There's the Mother Mary (the VERY CENTER of the Catholic religion.) And there is Nun's, and then mothers raise their children up to be good catholics, but they don't force a mother to stay home either.

Answer 7

i think as long as women aren't allowed to be priests or clergy, they will never have the same rights in the catholic church

Answer 8

no idea as I did not know much about Catholicism