Doing things is the most important thing
Mrs Blair also revealed that every time she did not use contraception, "I seemed to have a baby" in a discussion about the Church's attitude to birth control and abortion.
She said: "How could I have done all the things I have done if I hadn't used contraception?"
Yeah, how could she have raised money for Planned Parenthood and all of her other efforts for the culture of death if she didn't use contraception? We are not wonderfully made you know after all. God didn't include a fertility off/off switch on our foreheads. Gee didn't our creator know about careers? You can read all throughout scripture where people brag about careers and not their children. Raising up children for the Kingdom of Heaven just does not compare to a career. All of those executives when they get older lament that they did not spend more time at work instead of their family. Carl Olson has a nice quip to add
Indeed, how could she go about telling people what the Church must do to survive and grow if she hadn't been busy ignoring the teachings of the same Church? Whatever the intentions, the logic is sterile, although apparently not purposely so.
Cherie Blair also managed to express some other silliness.
The Catholic Church is losing congregations by alienating women and failing to give them a public role, Cherie Blair said last night.
Church leaders must modernise the role of women in order to halt the decline in church attendance, she said. Mrs Blair, herself a Catholic, said: "One of the fundamental weaknesses of modern Christianity is its ambivalence to women, and particularly for Catholicism.
"Until the traditional churches fully resolve their relationship with the female half of the population, how can they expect Christianity to have a future in the modern world?
"Traditionally, it was women who passed religion on to their children and who kept the Church going through good times and bad, but when it comes to the public face of Christianity, women are virtually invisible.
You have to wonder if she has ever been to daily Mass or attended any groups meeting in a church where women are the large majority of people involved. There have been plenty of articles out there complaining about the lack of men being involved in a parish - but for Mrs. Blair facts don't matter when it comes to feminist gripes. I guess Blessed Mother Teresa was not part of the "public face of Christianity" or the fact that Catholic churches are filled with the examples of great women saints. I guess she must of got tired of saying all those "Hail Joseph's" - oh wait.
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Gee, every Church I ever participated in was practically run by the women. If you needed information, the go to person was a woman; if you needed a Bible study to attend it was taught by a woman; and really, if the women up and quit very little would get done in the resulting chaos.
I'm more concerned over the lack of participation by MEN!
Mrs. Blair might want to check with the Archbishop of Canterbury as to how well the 'modernization' thing is working for building up the Anglican church.
Whenever women complain about not having a public role, it is almost certain she has not completely died to self - and self-centered ambition.
Yeah! Too alienating and too ambivalence to women. I'm sorry Blessed Mother but we have not been alienating enough for some people, you are now kicked out, even though you have been elevated second to God, the sexist men who have been encouraging devotion to you have apparently got it all wrong. Also, on your way out of heaven and Christendom be sure to take Joan of Arc, Edith Stein, your cousin Elizabeth, Gianna Beretta Molla, Therese of Lisieux, Theresa of Avalia, Mechtild of Maghdenburgh, St. Scholastica, St. Cecelia, and all the other female saints that we don't know about. Heaven is apparently not a place for women.
Exactly what was the catholic church thinking allowing women to pen books and have mystical visions and form religious orders? Let a woman find a religious order and next thing you know she wants to be treated as an equal. Geez the Catholic Church really missed the boat of oppression and alienation here. While we are at it, lets complain that blacksmithing and and many other occupations are difficult to do with a 2 month old child nursing at your breast. Damn how dare the catholic church force women to breast feed their children! I don't care if it is natural. It is oppressive. Breast feeding is now out.
While we are at it, the catholic church shall no longer be referred to as feminine and the baptismal font is no longer the womb. This is not alienating enough women. Instead the church shall be referred to as an "it" or by the masculine "he." The baptismal font is now just a large puddle and is no longer a womb.
All the rosary groups, altar societies, bible studies being taught by women, mom's groups, social justice organizers, event planing, and all the directors of religious education that are all run by women are right out also. By allowing them too exists and be run by women is apparently too public of a role and are hereby now being oppressed. Alienation is soon to follow.
All those female teacher in the catholic system. You are out also. All the women who work in the dio. offices are gone. Alienation will follow shortly.
Mrs Blair also revealed that every time she did not use contraception, "I seemed to have a baby" in a discussion about the Church's attitude to birth control and abortion.
Gee, Mom, Thanks.
And she has the nerve to wonder why we never nominated her as Mother of the Year.
"Traditionally, it was women who passed religion on to their children and who kept the Church going through good times and bad..."
Ok, so she admits the importance of women passing religion on to their children....so what was it she could have been doing if she were not using contraception? :) Something important?
Just goes to show - it's possible to be highly educated and still lack common sense. Mrs. Blair has merely confirmed, once again, that she is a Catholic in name only.
Er but she did raise up children. 4 of them.
Something that often amazes (and always delights) me is the sight of the Blessed Mother above the altar of a Catholic church. You just don't see that sort of thing in other traditions, short of loony goddess-worshipers.
Every day I get up, go to work and stand in front of about 150 teens to talk with them, listen to them and teach them about morality, sacraments, Catholic social teaching, Scripture, and a plethora of other topics. It's a drag being so "invisible".....
This is on top of being "invisible" as a Franciscan apprentice, a lector, a catechist in my parish, a mentor to engaged couples, a wife, mom and daughter. I want to be "invisible" just like Mother Teresa, St. Edith Stein, St. Therese, St. Gianna Molla, Dorothy Day, Our Blessed Mother....God grant me such "invisibility"!
This woman is a disgusting human being and if it were not for the direct orders of my savior not to I would find myself hating this woman with extreme prejudice. Instead I will apply my will and pray for her.
Feminism is a horrific cancer that screws up everything...everything.
This woman is a twit and I would have no problem saying it to her face
I will quote Peter Kreeft, "What Feminists most need to do is go before the cross, unclench the fist, and bend the knee"
Gee...she figured out that sex leads to pregnancy.
Did she bother to figure out what her cycle is, and that NFP works just as well as unnatural contraception when done properly?
No. The three minutes it takes to get your basal body temp and check your mucus might get in the way of doing things.
I think Mrs. Blair is right-on with her position on women, and I think Mr. Jester is being a trifle short-sighted by playing the Mother Teresa and Mary cards.
Women need to be granted clergy positions --- priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, and even the primate position: pontiff.
Do you feel that women are not deserving of these positions?
How many of these female saints had children? Or was what they did not important since it did not involve raising children?