It's a catchy title, but I want to be clear up front that this is not a church-bashing diary. I read the opinion piece in today's New York Times on Sister Margaret McBride and her excommunication from the Catholic Church, and I wanted to share some thoughts. I realize some folks will use this as a church-bashing forum, but I plan on ignoring those individuals.
I think this incident highlights misogyny, but that when we see it in the church it is simply a clearer, more structured version of the misogyny that we also find in our general culture. In other words, the church doesn't go to any lengths to hide or massage its anti-woman policies with fancy language or rationalizations. They are straight-forward about them.
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