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In this episode of Catholic Unscripted, Katherine Bennett and Mark Lambert are joined by author and scholar Dr. Carrie Gress to discuss the intellectual and spiritual roots of modern feminism and the contemporary crisis surrounding womanhood.  For more information about Dr Carrie Gress and to read her work, follow the links below: A recent article on how critics of Dr Carrie Gress' work completely miss the point on Mary Wollstonecraft https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/04/critics-of-my-anti-feminism-book-completely-miss-the-plot-on-mary-wollstonecraft/ The End of Woman Something Wicked    The Theology of Home Substack    Drawing first on her influential book The End of Woman , Dr. Gress traces the ideological development of feminism from the Enlightenment through the Romantics, the French Revolution, sexual revolution and into today’s gender ideology.  The conversation explores how ideas about autonomy, power, and sexuality gradually detached from Christia...

Still need to catch up with the Catholic Unscripted posts! In this packed episode we discuss some of the dramatic news around the Church over the last week. The controversial Vatican deal with the Chinese Communist Party seems to be under pressure as the Vatican released a bulletino at the weekend condemning China for breaching the terms of the deal. More at the Catholic Herald here .   While Gavin analysed the German Synodal Path: https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-synod-can-never-achieve-its-aim-of-being-catholic-in-a-different-way/   the Vatican held a meeting which delivered a firm smack down to the wayward German bishops, delivered by two leading Vatican officials https://catholicherald.co.uk/cardinals-ladaria-and-ouellet-condemn-german-synodal-path-in-vatican-report/   we discuss how this is very encouraging news for faithful Catholics! Gavin & I talk about the difference between the spooky spirit of Vatican II and the real teachings of the Council on t...

This post won't deal with all the problems there are with pornography, but it will attempt to address some. It's got some philosophy in it too. I found this great post on Emma Scrivener's blog about porn. I think it is always good to read information on this from a woman's perspective because of stuff like this: This woman's reaction to page 3 of The Sun makes sense to me, because the subtle normalisation of sexual images in newspapers is implicitly condoning the sexualisation of women. True femenism should seek to dismantle such out dated stereotypes. Instead as Germaine Greer famously laments, her brand of feminism seems to have merely achieved a reality wherein the girls can now act in as inappropriate, drunken, and lecherous manner as the boys. Not much of a step up for society! There is an interesting argument about prudishness that asks why anyone should be offended by bare boobs. It states that the human body is natural and we should not be embar...

Loved this in the Jewish Chronicle : This extraordinary picture of a veiled Chasid was recently taken at Ben Gurion Airport. Its wearer must either fear the threat of some particularly pestilential mosquitos or, more probably, wants to protect himself from the sight of women with bare arms or short skirts. Before you mock this as an outlandish fundamentalist fad, let us commend it as a fashion that more could follow. If men are genuinely worried for their spiritual welfare by the way women dress, let women wear what they please and men don the veils. [Emphasis mine]