Feminism: The ‘Shadow Church’ Replacing Christianity
Feminism: The ‘Shadow Church’ Replacing Christianity
A Catholic scholar warns that feminist ideology is a religion destroying women for generations to come.
“Feminism has created a Shadow Church,” author Carrie Gress stated at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., last week. She said the movement functions as a sinister moral system intent on replacing Christianity, as it offers its own authority, rituals, and theological principles in direct opposition to Christianity and its influence on Western society. She contends that this framework explains why debates over gender roles, abortion, and transgenderism continue to intensify after decades of feminist influence over our culture.
That argument forms the backbone of Gress’ latest book, Something Wicked, which frames feminism as a “Shadow Church.” Rather than operating merely as a political movement, Gress argued, feminism mirrors the structure of Catholicism by meeting women’s emotional, spiritual, and practical needs on a daily basis. “That’s one of the reasons it’s …
It took me a long time to understand the toxicity of feminism. And even with trads. it maintains it's grip. That's why I now always cover my head at Mass -a testimony against it. And I avoid pants at Church too. Haven't all the way give them up for practical reasons.