Article here. Excerpt:
'It’s been little more than 30 years since the emergence of the modern international women’s movement, and already, at least in the view of a Vatican official, there has been an “erosion of manhood” and a resulting “crisis in fatherhood.” This last, said Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, has given rise to millions of children around the world growing up without a father, with fatherless boys doomed to end up in prison, drop out or be expelled from school, become runaways or even commit suicide.
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Given how women have been abused, demeaned, discriminated against and marginalized through the centuries, it’s a wonder we’re still able to hold up our heads. But no matter how long we’ve been denigrated as the “weaker sex” and confined within our “natural” and “special” roles as sex objects and bearers of children, I haven’t heard anyone, much less a representative of the Holy See, spend any time bemoaning the erosion of womanhood or a crisis in motherhood. That’s because there hasn’t been any such crisis, because women have been able to carry on our roles in society even as we seek to expand our opportunities and change perceptions of who or what we should be.'
