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Author Topic: Why does NeoCatholicism appeal so much to women?  (Read 808 times)

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Why does NeoCatholicism appeal so much to women?
« on: May 09, 2012, 07:27:47 PM »
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  • Is it because of the sentimentality at its root?


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    Why does NeoCatholicism appeal so much to women?
    « Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 12:22:10 AM »
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  • In a way I'd say yes. Women being much more given to what could be called a subjectivist world-view find the inherent ambiguity of modernism quite appealing. They often find objective reasoning difficult, as it so often demands conclusions which conflict with whatever their current emotional state happens to be. "Oh, you mustn't say that such and such is always wrong, my friend (or sister, aunt, mother &c.) does this and she certainly isn't really a bad person" In other words, "that makes me feel bad, so I don't want to hear it." Emotion and imagination are preferred to strict logical thinking, fuzziness and ambiguity to clear precise definitions, and so forth. This is why women aren't generally all that interested in studying Philosophy and Theology.


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    Why does NeoCatholicism appeal so much to women?
    « Reply #2 on: May 10, 2012, 12:24:30 AM »
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  • What is "neocatholicism?"  

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    Why does NeoCatholicism appeal so much to women?
    « Reply #3 on: May 11, 2012, 02:41:56 AM »
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  • It's not neoCatholicism. It is Catholicism in general- even trad Catholicism. You always see more women at church then men, more women visiting Jesus, more women showing up for First Friday Masses and other devotionals, etc.. - whether they be N.O. or Trad Catholics.

    The reason for that I can't explain. Can anyone?

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    Why does NeoCatholicism appeal so much to women?
    « Reply #4 on: May 11, 2012, 03:14:29 AM »
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  • Maybe the trad men are working.

    I see a lot of women running the show at the NO parish.  They go right up to do their "duty" as EMHCs even if the priest is enough to give out Communion to everyone.

    The liturgical council which was started within the last three months is run by women.

    The parish is falling apart anyway because most people don't like having a priest with an accent.