This would be laughable if it weren’t so fraking sad. Let’s get ‘em back in the kitchen and the laundry boys. No different from the Christian evangels. 

I think this particular Vatican statement has more merit than the recent request for abstinance from technology on Fridays during Lent!

I was raised a Catholic, graduated from a Jesuit college, but find more and more that the ‘man -made’ portion of the Church just keeps trying to push people away.

 I remember speaking with a woman who at the time was the principal of the parochial school that my children attended. She said "There are over 1000 sects of Christianity. Christ gave two commandments to follow: love God, love your neighbor as yourself. Unfortunately, instead of doing a good job of following these two commandments, we are better at not eating meat on Fridays during Lent".  Food for thought, indeed!

I remember cranking the wringer/washer my mom had in our tiny kitchen when I was younger than 5 years old — it was a thrill to help her, but my arms got very tired. [But then I also remember the ice man bringing us big blocks of ice for our ice box, dripping wet after walking up the five flights of our tenement.] I also remember that when I was first married we couldn’t afford a washing machine and it wasn’t safe to go to the public laundry, so I washed everything by hand—sheets, diapers, clothes—on a small scrub board in our bathtub. It very quickly became clear to me why people wear light cotton underwear and women wear slips and why we place light sheets under our bed blankets … Anyone remember the little ditty that begins  "this is the way we wash our clothes … " and outlines a woman’s chores all through the week? Washing machine. Most liberating? There may be a grain of truth in that.

Well I’m not as old as rocky rocky.  So I would say the birth control pill was the most liberating.  I saw the difference of women not have an out of control family.  Tiring to support all the children.  Going to have a family that was manageable.  In time the women’s movement eventually allow them to support their family.  In my time I would say the birth control pill.

Typical man talk.  What do they know, for cryin’out loud?  Have you ever been deep inside Mexico where women have no choice and machismo rules, and the Church forbids birth control?  Geez!  I’m so tired of this backward thinking….

What I find peculiar is that even after the washing machine was invented, no mad would be caught dead doing the laundry.  I understand that back when women "knew their place", so did men.  And now that women have demonstrated that we can fill nearly any man-sized shoe, most men still can’t manage to wipe all the crumbs off the countertop…even with a handi-vac.

Women are so lucky in today’s modern world.  For generations, the work, and the hours involved in mainting a happy healthy family was desperately disproportionate.  The washing mahcine, and the dishwasher and the vacuum liberated us within the household, gave us more quality time to spend with our children.  The pill liberated us, and our families, within the fullness of life. 

That’s not very well said, but all too often, it seems like women are still the ones taking on the bulk of the responsibility for both! 

We may as well be back in the dark ages, here we are in the 21st Century and still have Church Leaders telling women what they can and cannot do.  All church leaders need to stay out of women’s own personal business and just take care of preaching to their flock, God gave us a brain for a reason so we can think for ourselves.