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PDF version'Horror-tainment' proves the need for men and women to come together
by Sr. Rose Pacatte on Feb. 17, 2012
By now, if you have any link to any media, you have seen the photo of the men who testified on Capitol Hill about artificial contraception Thursday.
If you only look at the photo, the only people testifying are men. From an image analysis alone, the fact that only men testified about an issue at the core of our being as human persons, this image is deeply troubling.
Although the regulation of birth seems like it is only for women, Humane Vitae stresses that this is a matter for husbands and wives -- that would mean men and women. Even among conservative Christians, there must have been one woman who agreed with these men who could have been included. (It seems they denied a "liberal" woman the chance to testify.)
This morning, a colleague sent me this link about an award-winning Fox News person, Liz Trotta, commenting on the Pentagon's study that revealed the surge in violent sexual assaults against women in the military.
Ms. Trotta's views are deeply troubling about men and women and the inevitability of violent sexual assaults.
Everyone knows that news and entertainment converged a long time ago into "infotainment."
But Jon Stewart's new genre of "horror-tainment" calls for an image of a clown, crying -- that after all this time, all the suffering, that even a woman cannot stand up for women, and that rather than include men and women in a hearing about artificial contraception, women were excluded from the conversation. Women are silenced once again.
Let's not forget the dad who shot his daughter's computer with his .45.
What does it all mean?
That our culture is in serious need of God's Word and Christian disciples who walk the talk. Men and women together.
Peter Seewald recently
Peter Seewald recently reported ratzo ruled rubbers all right among men, I believe in the interviews published as Light of the World: The Pope, The Church and the Signs Of The Times.
Isn't that what the NCR article said about it? I am old. I forget.
Yet this is lost in the current politically financed brouhaha?
Catholic propagandist Pat
Catholic propagandist Pat Buchanan no longer contributes to broadcast horror-tainment, at least
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/blacklisted-pat-buchanan-msnbc-amid-...
Gosh, when the Newt White House hires Winters away as a reward for services well rendered, perhaps the newly unemployed Pat can take over that Distinctly Catholic slot at the head of the left column (changing it of course to the right column).
Sister Rose, thank you very
Sister Rose, thank you very much for your wisdom and courage and knowledge in publishing this article with the links provided. You are a marvel and a grace and a joy, and I am SO HARD TRYING TO RESTRAIN MYSELF from asking, "So, Sister Rose, how's the Cornelius Brothers?" as one so young as yourself, would have NO idea, unless that's already been worked to death . . .
Oh, well.
Too late to turn back now . . .
Two women testified at the
Two women testified at the panel. Please correct the erroneous information reported in this article.
Dr. Allison Dabbs Garrett
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Oklahoma Christian University
Laura Champion, M.D.
Medical Director
Calvin College Health Services
http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=...
I'm confused by this. I never
I'm confused by this. I never saw the father shooting his daughter's laptop as "violence against women". The girl baited him with a posting intended to humiliate him, without even giving him access to read it. If she wasn't grateful for the laptop and the work he did to upgrade it, he had a right to destroy it. Property of minors is for parents to decide the privileges for use.
Is this a feminist post written by a nun? Why? I guess I'm still naive, an RCIA candidate taught that priests are the protectors and defenders of the feminine Church and of women. Even if women had more to say about birth control, they couldn't say anything different than men. I think the opinions of the Church are genderless. Truth is truth.
What's the connection between the laptop shooter and the referenced picture and story about a woman being silenced? And how does this relate at all to our times and the Church? Help me understand.
Lauara Peace wrote: I never
Lauara Peace wrote: I never saw the father shooting his daughter's laptop as "violence against women"
I'm confused by this. How is it NOT violence, and against a woman, Laura?
Not so odd the mother is not in the picture here . . .
Was there violence against her as well?
Too bad she had to leave the daughter behind to suffer more.
Often works out that way, the violent get the spoils, leaving the peaceful lucky to be alive, even with the great pain of losing a daughter.
Laura Peace wrote: "Even if women had more to say about birth control, they couldn't say anything different than men."
wow . . .
what kind of whack fascist world are we in now?
Not a Christian one. Not a Catholic one.
Time to head for the border, to the Spanish Mass among the poorest, in peace.
Laura, google Themes of
Laura, google Themes of Catholic Social Teaching. Some sites list seven, others list ten.
Human dignity, the common good, solidarity, option for the poor, care for the earth, family and community and so on. These themes are deeply rooted in the Scriptures.
I think this post by Sr Rose shook up your perceptions of how things should be or are, but St Ignatius might ask you: why are you resisting? What is it that irritates you about this post.
The father shooting the daughters computer? It offended his dignity and that of the girl, not to say the culture in general. He offended parents and families everywhere. He spoiled her and when she was a brat he shot her computer. With a gun. It's violence against the family but the woman first.
That session of hearings? Not a woman on it, the woman who will carry a child for 9 months and take care of the child when the dad leaves, abandons them, goes to war, or dies in the course of nature. Why not women? Why men?
Then the crack pot on Fox tv saying the rise in violent rapes in the military is inevitable. Sounded a lot to me like she was saying it's the female soldier's fault. If I were a male soldier I would have been offended, that she basically thinks men are ruled by lust and incapable f empathy and exercising conscience.
Thus Sr Rose did not write a feminist piece, she drew our attention to the fact that women are still a minority in this country and beyond. Underlying her piece are the themes of Catholic social teaching.
Mother Teresa, and others said, my job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Mission accomplished if even one more person looks at society through the lens of Catholic social teaching.
Do keep looking for answers. Don't stop.
How can we have congressional
How can we have congressional hearings on religious freedom and birth control and there be no women?
Not so hard. Woman have had less than 100 years in which we have been able to even vote. It has been a long hard slog for women to gain some control over our lives and some power in our society - and it has always been a fight against the most traditional elements of society. It will take centuries to slowly break down the culturally imposed limits of what a woman can/should do and what a man can/should do.
Of course, the way the congressional committee deals with the issue of freedom and birth control reflects the way the Catholic Church deals with it. No women allowed to give an opinion, have a voice. Evidently, our lived experience is as irrelevant to the congressional committee as it is to the Church.
As I said, it will take centuries.
i am very injoy ful
i am very injoy ful
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