Pope warns feminists

Published: 2 August 2004 y., Monday
The Pope will call on leaders of the Roman Catholic church today to attack feminist ideologies which assert that men and women are fundamentally the same. The Vatican is concerned that this belief is eroding what it regards as women's maternal vocation. But a paper on the subject which is due to be published today - the Vatican's third major pronouncement on women's role in the quarter century of John Paul's papacy - has drawn scornful criticism from feminists and academics. According to a leaked extract, the document accuses feminists of "blurring the biological difference between man and woman". But it is also understood to break new ground by appealing to governmentsto give help to women so they can cope with their broader modern responsibilities.It emerged yesterday that the Vatican itself had taken a further step towards incorporating women into the previously all-male leadership of the Roman Catholic church. A nun, who was not named in Italian media reports, was said to be working as a high-level aide to the Pope's "foreign minister", Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo.
Šaltinis: guardian.co.uk
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