The Winter 2003 issue of The Latin Mass Magazine has an artilce called Seeking Bad Advice about the effects of feminism in the American Church by Donna Steichan (author of Ungodly Rage:The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism and Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church).
I personally thought the article was excellent, but the point of my blog is not to write a critique of it, but to share a couple of paragraphs out of context from the article that hit home:
Exhortations to sexual morality and modesty in dress have been as uncommon as minuets at a rap concert, and sermons condemning contraception so rare that many Catholics have never heard one. Indeed, many Catholics are unaware that the Church holds contraception to be sinful. Planned Parenthood apparatchiks paint Catholic as pro-life political boiler rooms, but the truth is that sermons on the immorality of abortion are seldom of ever preached there, nor are Catholic politicians who vote for abortion ever condemned.
However well intentioned worshippers in such congregations may be, it is hard for the to love and serve God as faithfully as He deserves when they know so little about Him and His law. What they know best are the transient values of secularb relativism, the very values to which fallen human nature is most readily susceptible.
Sums up a lot for me...
