The darkest period of European history for women was marked by a drive to restrict women to the home and the convent, and also by the witch hunts that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
Throughout the Medieval period, but especially during the early Middle Ages, it was considered neither unusual nor offensive for a woman to reign and rule as Queen. What are we to make of that?
Whatever the local influence of the barbarians may have been in different areas, throughout the age of Christendom women often attained places of major significance in society as a whole.
Despite what Liberal Christian Feminists believe, the Catholic Church has long exalted the role of women and the Blessed Virgin Mary as playing an absolutely essential role in our salvation. Here's why ...
Jesus said "from the beginning," God made us "male and female" (Jn 19:3). And the Bible indicates that he made them different, but equal in dignity and value, right from the start.
New Catholic Feminism and Liberal Feminism both are utterly opposed to the myriad of ways that women in the world today are denigrated, marginalized, or beaten down.
Over the past few months, whenever I would speak to anyone about the new web series I was working on, they would invariably turn to me and reply: "The New Catholic ... what?"
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