A New Feminism. On March 8 the world celebrates the International Day of Women. This year is also the 20th anniversary of John Paul II's apostolic letter to women, "Mulieris dignitatem". Guzmán Carriquiry …More
A New Feminism.
On March 8 the world celebrates the International Day of Women. This year is also the 20th anniversary of John Paul II's apostolic letter to women, "Mulieris dignitatem".
Guzmán Carriquiry, Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Laity, comments on a challenge this apostolic letter offers: a new feminism.
"John Paul II's request is still a challenge and task: the elaboration and achievement of a new feminism… There is nothing wrong with re-evaluating because often, when we do, stereotypes and prejudices are diffused; and they impede a complete and truthful understanding of the Church's position and opinion about the major issues that interest the women of today."
Carmen Aparicio, professor of theology, hopes that the Congress "Man and Woman, the fullness of what is Human," organized by the Holy See, may yield a feminism free of radicalism.
"I hope that we women may attain a renewed spirit of truth and be present where we need to be, and be free of fanatism."
Leticia Soberón, a Doctor of Communication and a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, remarks that there should be no rivalry between man and woman, rather reciprocity.
"To say that man and woman are the image of God in communion is to say that we are united according to God's heart in a dialogue of two equal and at the same time different persons, without any kind of problem on account of being either a man or a woman, free of competition and struggle and instead, in love and charity as God desires us to be".
On March 8 the world celebrates the International Day of Women. This year is also the 20th anniversary of John Paul II's apostolic letter to women, "Mulieris dignitatem".
Guzmán Carriquiry, Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Laity, comments on a challenge this apostolic letter offers: a new feminism.
"John Paul II's request is still a challenge and task: the elaboration and achievement of a new feminism… There is nothing wrong with re-evaluating because often, when we do, stereotypes and prejudices are diffused; and they impede a complete and truthful understanding of the Church's position and opinion about the major issues that interest the women of today."
Carmen Aparicio, professor of theology, hopes that the Congress "Man and Woman, the fullness of what is Human," organized by the Holy See, may yield a feminism free of radicalism.
"I hope that we women may attain a renewed spirit of truth and be present where we need to be, and be free of fanatism."
Leticia Soberón, a Doctor of Communication and a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, remarks that there should be no rivalry between man and woman, rather reciprocity.
"To say that man and woman are the image of God in communion is to say that we are united according to God's heart in a dialogue of two equal and at the same time different persons, without any kind of problem on account of being either a man or a woman, free of competition and struggle and instead, in love and charity as God desires us to be".