Dear Joseph:

There can be found good in almost anything somewhere. Where there is good found in something we can acknowledge it without endorsing the whole.

Feminism is in favor of equal pay for equal work, supporting rape victims, corporations providing day care, and other issues like that. These are moral goods.

But, one does not have to be a feminist to be in favor of these things. One can be Catholic and be in favor of such issues. No one ought to call themselves a Catholic feminist; that is an oxymoron.

Feminism, as an "ism", is a system of thought, a worldview. That system of thought is not only inconsistent with Christianity but is hostile to it.

In the Oath of Fidelity taken by members of my Order, the Order of the Legion of St. Michael, is a statement about feminism that gives a brief summary as to why feminism is to be condemned:

Feminism: I further declare that I am completely opposed to the error of the feminists, who hold a basic assumption of androgynous utopia in which specifically states that all "forms of domination and oppression of man by man are social expressions of that dualism that is rooted more deeply than any others: the elevation of the male sex above the female (Catharina J.M. Halkes, "God Does Not Only Have Strong Sons", 1980); and who holds a rejection of hierarchy in any structures of society or Church promoting the idea of a "circular" community and which believes that "those who hold office are only the self-articulation of the life of the community" negating the order of God in regard to creation, roles, function, and appointment and negating the proper dignity that God has given to women; and who holds the belief that experience takes priority against the administrative structures of the Church and religious teachings; and who assert "inclusive language" as a political instrument and in particular to subvert the paterfamilias nature of God and the Church; and who promote ideas of "ecofeminism" in relation with nature, asserting the idea that the ills of our earth come from the technological plundering of the earth allegedly traced back to a traditional understanding of an account of creation written by priests; and who hold the interpersonal community deriving from the self-experience of "sisterly" groups which leads to a "feminist socialism"; and who hold that the ecological concern of the experience of "sisterhood" evolves a "new spirituality" linked to a cult of "mother earth" where God is seen in terms of motherly images that effectively push His world-transcending authority into the background; and which finally may be summed up as being "understood as calling into question the male cast of both the image of God and the office of priest" ("Women in the Priesthood" by Fr. Manfred Hauke, 1988).

For an insight into the true nature of Feminism, which has little to nothing to do with issues like "equal pay for equal work" read the book, Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism by Donna Steichen. Steichen interviews one of the leaders of the feminist movement who reveals that the true agenda of feminism is not political or social, but spiritual.

Such issues as equal pay for equal work is merely window-dressing to look legitimate and to recruit unsuspecting women into the movement. The feminist agenda ultimately wants to see the destruction of the Catholic Church and Christianity in general which is considered by them to be a tradition of patriarchal oppression.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary