Despite having taken flak from certain vocal quarters of conservative and traditionalist Catholicism over the past decade, Pope Francis is on a roll when it comes to breaking Death Cult taboos.
Following widely circulated stories of the Holy Father reaffirming Church laws banning homosexuals and women from the priesthood, recent reports have Francis warning priests against gossip as a vice unbecoming men.
Gossip is a “woman’s thing”, Pope Francis is alleged to have told a group of priests at a recent meeting in Rome.
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The head of the Catholic Church, 87, is said to have advised the priests, ordained within the past 10 years, of “badmouthing” in parishes and congregations
“Gossip is a women’s thing,” he allegedly said. “We wear the trousers, we have to say things.”
Those hyperentilating online about His Holiness “disrespecting women” are well-advised to read the Bible, and subsequent commentaries by fathers and doctors of the Church, before jumping to rash judgments againt the current successor of Peter.
Here are just a few highlights:
Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in [through the] child-bearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1 Timothy 2:11-15
The woman taught once, and ruined all. On this account therefore he says, let her not teach. But what is it to other women, that she suffered this? It certainly concerns them; for the sex is weak and fickle, and he is speaking of the sex collectively. For he says not Eve, but the woman, which is the common name of the whole sex, not her proper name.
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 9 on First Timothy
Subjection is twofold. One is servile, by virtue of which a superior makes use of a subject for his own benefit; and this kind of subjection began after sin. There is another kind of subjection which is called economic or civil, whereby the superior makes use of his subjects for their own benefit and good; and this kind of subjection existed even before sin. For good order would have been wanting in the human family if some were not governed by others wiser than themselves. So by such a kind of subjection woman is naturally subject to man, because in man the discretion of reason predominates. Nor is inequality among men excluded by the state of innocence, as we shall prove (I:96:3.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Vol. I, Q. 92, Art. 1, Reply to Objection 2
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Lost amid the feminist freakout over the Holy Father’s sage advice is the whole point of his admonition: Gossip is an effeminate vice. No one, much less men—even less so priests—should engage in it.
The additional reminder that the Church is not, and has never been, egalitarian is icing on the cake.
Pope Francis is on a roll demolishing Death Cult gender theory, and we should hope it continues.
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