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The causes that altered the normal men/women relationships?

Just a few statements and thoughts.

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/allocution-to-the-fathers-of-families-8939
Pius XII.
A group of French fathers made a special pilgrimage to Rome, to present their "Association of Fathers" to the Pope.
Sept 18, 1951 AD.
Excerpt:

  "...It is clear that your first duty in the sanctuary of the family home is to provide—with due respect and the perfection, humanly possible, of its integrity, of its unity, of the natural hierarchy which unites the members among themselves—for the preservation of the physical, intellectual, moral and religious sanctity of the family. Evidently, this obligation includes that of defending and promoting its sacred duties; in the first place that of fulfilling the obligations due to God, to constitute a Christian society in the full sense of the word; secondly to defend the rights of the family against all attacks or external influences which could attack its purity, faith, and holy stability.

...Promote these same rights by demanding from the civil, political and cultural society the means, at least those which are indispensable, for their free exercise.

The cell of society

...The Christian has a rule which permits him to determine with certainty the extent of the rights and duties of the family in the community of the State. It is thus conceived: the family is not made for society; rather it is society which is made for the family. The family is the fundamental cell, the constitutive element, of the community of the State, because—to use the expression of Our Predecessor, Pius XI, of happy...

...the aim of this Association of Fathers is to use fruitful means of enlightening public opinion and little by little to pervade it to favor the triumph of truth and justice. No effort to act upon public opinion must be disdained or neglected.

... the intolerable impudence of certain literature; and while paganism itself seemed to halt in respect before the secret of married inti...

..it is not firmly restrained by constant discipline, by a vigorous self-control, above all, by the use of the supernatural means of prayer and the Sacraments. All Catholic educators, worthy of the name and their mission, are fully aware of the overwhelming importance of supernatural forces in man's sanctification—youth or adult, married or single.

... Pius XI, in the Encyclical <Divini illius Magistri>, regarding sɛҳuąƖ education and the related problems, are pushed aside with a smile of compassion: Pius XI, it is said, wrote these things twenty years ago for his own times! The world has gone a long way since then!

...Fathers here present: in every corner of the globe, in every country, there are other Christian fathers of families such as yourselves, who share your sentiments. Unite yourselves therefore with them—naturally under the direction of your Bishops. Call to your help all Catholic mothers and with their powerful support fight together, without timidity or human respect, to halt and curtail these movements which authorize and mask themselves under any name or patronage. Not without reason you have placed your pilgrimage under the special care of the great Pope of the Eucharist, Blessed Pius X. Have faith in the help of the Immaculate Virgin, Mother most pure, Mother most chaste, Help of Christians; have faith in the grace of Christ, source of all purity, Who never abandons those who work for the coming and establishment of His kingdom.

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Bishop Williamson discussed this many times.

Industrial Revolution (1760 - 1840) Women enter the work force, family life is different, negatively impacted...
WWI, WWII, Women work making bullets amd supplies for the war effort. Again women leaving their trad roles.

Television (1950s), worldly campaigns, enjoy life, further eroding the traditional family unit.

Social revolution  (1960s) Most want "Peace and Luv", freedom from authority. Rock and roll ""music"" thrashing modesty, decency, laws. Media attacking the trad. Male role model.

Contraceptions / abortions ruin the respect for chastity,women, marriage, life.

Vatican II (1962 - 1965) Liberty, the Church must adapt to the times. Sin?? Hell?? Truth?? Personal opinions dominate.

Rainbow movement (1989? - present) Collapse of the centuries old nuclear family model.

Satanism publically recognized / authorized... death culture, horoscopes, abominations in society (  what's left of it!?)

2024 Canada etc.  Individualism = Godless =lack of Charity= hopeless, Medical Assistance In Death.

2025 Gender narrative: "So you you believe you are a man?...OK, we can schedule the transition next week", gob't approved.

   Any wonder then that women are generally their own bosses, "My body", revolt against dogmas, Rules... Husbands? Their God-given roles they have from God were wrecked, and now we can witness the results of their confusion.
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Fr. Chazal, re the Knights: posted March 11, 2026

"...Our goal is to bring our layman into the leadership that they should have. And to be a leader, it means that you you fulfill your assignments of studies. That's the number one duty of a man.

If you if you are a man, you are the head of the family, you have civil responsibilities. And to exercise those responsibilities, you must know what is the social doctrine of Christ. What is the position of the church on social issues? What are the famous texts of the popes and so on and so forth? How do you establish the kingship of Christ? And we don't see that all that much. It worries us. It worries me. I am I'm not interested to give my help to a hard right movement. I I'm not fighting within the system. I'm not jumping in the lake of the crocodiles to fight with the crocodiles. This is not my fight. My fight is to train our layman as to the social teaching of Christ. Then they will have to act on this. Yes, it's up to them. It's their duty of state but the my first responsibility the first responsibility of the order is to ensure that the members fulfill their duty of state as Catholic men as Catholic citizens as head of families by following the assignments that are given to them by their hierarchy and by..."

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Holy Lent!