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31 July, 2004
31 July 2004The Vatican solves the Venus-Mars debate once and for all with their new "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World": "'Every outlook which presents itself as a conflict between the sexes is only an illusion and a danger...nourished by a false conception of freedom,'" the document states. John L. Allen Jr. of The National Catholic Reporter writes that the document, which holds that male/female differences are so fundamental that they will endure even in the afterlife, also "recommends cultivation of 'feminine values' such as 'listening, welcoming, humility, faithfulness, praise and waiting.' At the same time, the document insists it is not urging women to 'a passivity inspired by an outdated conception of femininity.'"
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