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To: Maximilian
I am inclined to agree with you. The French Revolution is surely the godfather of all utopian isms.

Where Christina Hoff Sommers finds two distinct feminisms, Dr. Pia de Solenni has found no less than four distinct types of feminism. This inevitably leads to some semantic games where she redefines feminism in such a way that no one to the left of Phyllis Schlafly would recognize it. She is a courageous and true defender of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic Church, among other things near and dear to my heart.

There comes a point however, when you can start quibbling over undotted i's and uncrossed t's. I believe in granting a fair amount of latitude to those whom I perceive as fighting on the right side. I did not always hold the views that I do now and I hope that in some way I may, from time to time, articulate a view that someone else shared, but did not know how to put into words.
50 posted on 05/24/2003 7:50:55 PM PDT by TradicalRC (Fides quaerens intellectum.)
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To: TradicalRC
Dr. Pia de Solenni has found no less than four distinct types of feminism.

This is exactly the type of hair-splitting that Pope Pius XI spoke against. No matter how you slice it "socialism is utterly foreign to a Christian conception of life." And feminism even more so, since human life is even more basic than economics and property.

She is a courageous and true defender of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic Church

I'm sure this may be true, although I've never heard of her. She may be honest and sincere. But she's misguided if she thinks she can be a "Christian feminist." And if she thinks that she is doing this in order to win over the feminists, she's equally misguided. Pope Pius XI specifically condemned that approach. We can only win them over by presenting to them the fullness of Catholic truth in all its entirety. There can be no such thing as "meeting them halfway."

51 posted on 05/24/2003 8:02:47 PM PDT by Maximilian
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