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From: unisoft!lynn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Lynn Klein)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Newspaper Article
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Date: 23 Oct 90 23:50:40 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.214229.23575@nntp-server.caltech.edu> morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
>Being from a catholic background myself, I believe catholicism and
>feminism are fundamentally incompatible.

Yes, if you roll over and play dead (as many Catholics unfortunately  
do).

I'm in my fifth year of graduate studies at the Jesuit School of
Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.  When I
came there, totally naive about sexism, feminism was a given in
every single class I took (though perhaps not always welcomed by a
a few reluctant teachers).  My faith matured and deepened beyond
what I could describe here.  It's been very painful, but growing up
has been well worth it.

The Jesuit School of Theology, not to mention the Graduate
Theological Union, is packed with feminist faculty (most notably 
Sandra Schneiders, mentioned on an earlier post, who wrote the
excellent "Women and the Word" -- a short but incredible read).
The Catholic church there is certainly compatible with feminism.

Lynn Klein