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Vol. Ill, No. 1
January 15, 1982
CATHOLICS AND THE
AMENDMENT
John Kenneth Weiskittel
As this article goes to press America has approx- job would be discrimination "on ac-
imately six months to decide the fate of the Equal count of sex". (1)
Rights Amendment (ERA). The controversial amend-
ment's supporters have until June 30, 1982 to achieve Also to be noted in the language of the amendment is
its ratification in three more states, but opponents of the term "equality". And here again we are discuss-
the measure have sworn to continue their battle ing the legal use of the word, a distinction that is by
against it. no means irrelevant. Black's Law Dictionary, a
reference work that has been used by countless
The National Organization for Women {NOW), the Judges, attorneys and law schools for the past 90
most vocal and visible of the pro-ERA forces, has years, defines equality as "the condition of possess-
recently vowed to make an all-out effort to pressure ing the same rights, privileges, immunities, and being
state iegistatures to ratify the amendment. At a rally liable to the same duties." (2) We ask that the reader
held near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, NOW keep this definition of equality in mind throughout the
leaders, joined by former First Ladies "Lady Bird" article, since equal rights inevitably require equal
Johnson and Betty Ford, stated their intention of duties.
spending between $6 million and $10 million on a
television commercial blitz to assure ERA ratification. Any study of the ERA calls for an examination of the
(Such an expenditure of money for TV spots hardly leaders, methods and goals of the feminist movement
seems necessary when one considers the large because the Equal Rights Amendment is a natural
amount of free coverage that the networks. and the development of that movement. The ERA was penned
secular media in general · give to the activities of by a militant feminist named Alice Paul over fifty
NOW and other feminist groups). years ago. Once, a near-riot condition erupted during
a demonstration she led; whereupon she was ar-
The stated goal of the ERA, it will be recalled, is to rested and later sent to a psychiatric ward. Miss Paul
secure a constitutional guarantee that "Equality of was aware of her actions, however, as she had
rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged journeyed before that to England in order to study
by the United States or by any State on account of with Emmeline Pankhurst the mechanics of revolu-
sex." One problem with the ERA lies in its language. tionary socialism.
The phrase "on account of sex" has been criticized by
leading legal authorities as being open to multiple in- If the disruption of social order was Miss Paul's goal,
terpretations. ERA foe Phyllis Schlafly, who appears she could scarcely have chosen a better teacher. Mrs.
to be the only representative of the anti-ERA forces Pankhurst, a radical Socialist who once belonged to
that the mass media are willing to acknowledge, in the Fabian Society (for more on the Fabians see the
her book, The Power of the Positive Woman, gives an September 1, '1981 issue of The Athanasian), along
idea of the judicial significance of such unclear ter- with her daughter Christabel formed a revolutionary
minology: group known as the Woman Social and Political
Union (WSPU). Her activities have been described as
… It is precisely "on account of sex" follows:
that a state now denies a marriage to
a man and a man, or to a woman and In 1908 Mrs. Pankhurst declared that
a woman. A homosexual who wants the suffragettes would either convert
to be a teacher could argue per- the ministry by force or see "the
suasively that to deny him a school continued on next page
cont. from page 1 should follow her example. They
would get the ballot much faster if
they did, They cannot hope to get
Government themselves destroyed."
anything unless they are willing to
Soon the WSPU surpassed all other
fight and suffer for it…"
dissident movements, if not in
"But I am a militant suffragette
rhetoric, in its violence and its disrup-
because I believe suffrage will lead to
tion of public life. The suffragettes
Socialism, and to me Socialism is the
organized campaigns of window
ideal cause." (5)
smashing in London, burned letters
in mailboxes, defaced paintings, and Socialism was the "ideal cause" Helen Keller es-
burned unoccupied buildings. Mrs. poused throughout her adult life, a fact often
Pankhurst called this escalation obscured in "Liberal" adulation for her.
"guerilla warfare" against property
"to make England and every depart- Another feminist living in America at roughly the
ment of English life insecure and un- same time was the Russian-born Anarchist Emma
safe." She stopped short only of en- Goldman. She advocated free love, "voluntary com-
dangering human life. (3) munism", and rioting to achieve her goals. Her
"philosophy" may have helped cause an American
However zealous Mrs. Pankhurst was in the cause of tragedy for, as the May 14, 1940 New York Times
radicalism seems almost slight when compared with noted:
that of her other daughter, Sylvia. Sylvia Pankhurst's
most notable activity along these lines was in her On Sept. 6, 1901, Leon Czolgosz shot
association with the Russian dictator Lenin and her President McKinley in Buffalo. In his
establishing of a Communist Party in England. (4) confession the assassin said that he
had been influenced by the writings
Back in the United States support for the illegal of Emma Goldman and by some of
methods proposed by Emmeline Pankhurst was con- the speeches which he heard her
siderable, including many of the prominent women of make in Cleveland. (6)
her day. In an article printed in the New York Times of Today Emma Goldman is considered something of a
May 6, 1913, we learn that: heroine by the leaders of the feminist movement. In
Helen Keller is a militant suffragette. The Feminist Papers editor Alice Rossi, writing an in-
She believes in the smashing of win- troductory essay to the 16-page section devoted to
dows, hunger strikes, anything that the anarchist's words, gushes forth praise by calling
will bring publicity to the cause. In an her "a feminist visionary who speaks to the mood and
interview (5-5-13) given here the goals of feminism in the 1970's far better than she
(Philadelphia) to-night (sic), the blind did to the women of her own day." (7) One who seems
girl announced that she was a suf- to be listening closely to "Red Emma", as she was
fragette because she believed the called, is radical feminist Gloria Steinem. Three years
cause eventually would lead to ago "Ms." Steinem, in discussing the reluctance of
Socialism. "I believe the women of states to ratify the ERA, threatened:
England are doing right", said Miss
Keller. "Mrs. Pankhurst is a great continued on next page
leader. The women of America
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"revolution" if political leaders refused to "dialogue"
with her on her terms; President Nixon, New York
The lawful and peaceful stage of our Governor Rockefeller and New York City Mayor Lind-
revolution may be over. It's up to the say all obediently signed proclamations hailing its
legislators. We can become radical, if "significance". (12) Far more revealing than this was
they force us. If they continue to in- the way she handled the march down New York's
terfere with the ratification of the Fifth Avenue. She candidly admits to having deceived
ERA, they will find every form of countless non-radical women into marching for a
disobedience possible in every state Marxist cause when she wrote how she got together
of the country. (8) before the march with Socialist Workers Party
organizer Ruth Ann Miller to inform her that "the
Along similar lines feminist leaders continually insist
young radicals (such as SWP members – JKW) looked
that under their calm exteriors American women like they were scaring away all the most respectable
seethe with rage. "In almost any woman you can middle-class, middle-aged elements – including NOW
unearth an incredible fury", states Marxist-feminist
members … " (13) But the worst was yet to come. After
Bernardine Dohrn. "It is often not even conscious, a
the march Mrs. Friedan spoke to the assembled mar-
threshold thing. But it's there, and it's an anger that chers, reminding them of the purpose of their strike:
can be a powerful radicalizing force … " (9) Other
feminist tributes to Emma Goldman include an Emma We serve notice, in our strike here
Goldman Clinic in Iowa, and "American Women in the tonight, that any senator who dares
20th Century", a propaganda film pretending to be a to trifle in any way with the Equal
documentary, which is to be narrated by TV per- Rights Amendment trifles with his
sonalities Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas·· both raised political future, for women will not
in Catholic homes ·· and to be produced by Ms. forgive and will not forget. There is no
magazine for Home Box Office, the nation's largest way any man, woman or child can
pay cable TV network. (source of film news: Ms. staff, escape the nature of our revolution,
"Feminist Notes", Ms., July '81, p. 15) of this great moment as it manifests
itself here and in other cities where
The movement for the ERA has had a good deal of women are marching. What we do
success because the vast majority of Americans have here will transform society, though it
been kept in the dark about the real motive force may not be exactly what Karl Marx or
behind it: lnternationa.1 Communism and Its "non- anyone else meant by revolutionary.
Communist" allies. While most of the leaders of the We are all the Karl Marxes of this
feminist movement are not, strictly speaking, Com- revolution." (14) (emphasis added)
munists, nearly all have at one time or another ex- The Karl Marxes?!? Does Mrs. Friedan's name-
pressed their contempt for the free market system dropping here seem a bit peculiar to you, dear reader?
and their desire to replace it with one form or another We confess puzzlement over the usage. First, in
of Socialism. Typical is NOW co-founder Betty modern times there have been countless revolutions
Friedan's analysis of the United States' economic (e.g., American, French, Russian, Mexican, and
system as "rotten old capitalism, which may or may Cuban, to name but a few of the more noted), and
not have the power to regenerate itself." (10) Despite there have been many people who have advocated
her thoroughly bogus, but carefully nurtured, media revolution of one sort or another, with Karl Marx simp-
image as a moderate, or even conservative (!), ly being the most famous – or, rather, infamous – of the
feminist, Mrs. Friedan has always appeared to be will- theorists. The question here Is: Why would a woman
ing to accept a Marxist or semi-Marxist interpretation born and bred in the U.S. select someone such as
as the most accurate view of the world. In her writings Marx with which to compare herself and her feminist
she has all but said that she was some form of compatriots when such logical choices would be
Bolshevik during her college years in the late 1940's. American revolutionaries, men with the character of a
In fact, she writes that she and her closest college George Washington or a Thomas Jefferson? Why in-
friends spent a good deal of time "going to Marxist deed? Since we do not read minds we can only guess,
discussion groups and rallies at Madison Square and our guess is that a person chooses someone with
Garden", and considered themselves "part of the whom they identify, someone for whom they feel an
vanguard of the working class revolution" affinity. Second, she mentions that her revolt is not
("vanguard" is a Communist term used to describe "exactly" what Marx or someone else may have
the leaders or indoctrinators of the workers – JKW) meant by the term. Elsewhere, she is more direct
who were "feeling only contempt for dreary bourgeois about the similarities and differences. Specifically, in
capitalists like our fathers." (11) Nowhere, in reading her conversation with a United Nations delegate from
her writings, have we ever found a repudiation by Mrs. Red China, who argued that women's liberation was
Friedan of her Marxist past. not needed in a capitalist system since a total
workers' "liberation" was needed first, Mrs. Friedan
What we have found in the works of Betty Friedan, recalled:
however, suggests quite the opposite. Her call for a
Women's Strike for Equality in 1970 threatened continued on next page
3
cont. from pcige 3
and new collectivized work must pre-
vent members from being exploited
and isolated from each other. (sic)
I said it was necessary, and good, for (18)
women to liberate themselves, no This, they tell us 1 is necessary because the famlly is
matter what the system, and our "slowly disintegrating". Sociologist Alvin Toffler, he
movement was one of the things now of Future Shock fame, has an even more radical vi-
changing the capitalist system (into a sion of tomorrow:
socialist system?· JKW). And wasn't
it possible that, in advanced in- Given affluence and the existence of
dustrial societies like the U.S. today, specially-equipped and licensed pro-
the women's movement might be the fessional parents, many of today's
same kind of revolutionary force as biological parents would not only
the working class, or proletariat, in gladly surrender their children to
the days of Marx and Lenin? (15) them, but would look upon it as an
act of love, rather than rejection. (19)
We must confess that we hate to agree with Betty Not to be outdone, Or. Margaret Mead, the an-
Friedan about anything, but in this case we are forced thropologist, feminist and constant supporter of far-
to say she is absolutely correct in the drift of her left causes, proposes the formation of communal
thought: yes, the feminist movement In our coun~ry "cluster group families", since, she argues, tradi-
will . if we do not take immediate steps to prevent 1t · tional families "overvalue personal autonomy and in-
help to transform our country into a go.dies~, dependence", and are thus "incongrous with our new
humanistic, socialist state. Why? Because 1t . will expectations." (20)
help to bring about what Marx and Engels described
in their pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, as the
Such opinions as these are all agreeable to the Com-
"Abolition of the family"! (16) munists and. either directly or indirectly· are derived
from the Marx/Engels demand for the destruction of
When we look at modern American society we can
the family and from other Communist ideological
certainly see the work of those who seek the destruc- sources. Marx' collaborator Friedrich Engels has
tion of the family. Today, the divine origins of mar- detailed the Communist position on women in his
riage are widely ignored, with civil ma.rriages and book, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and
easy, socially sanctioned divorces openm~ the way the State. In that volume, praised by today's American
for temporary, self-serving unions. Abortions out- feminists as essential reading, Engels states that
number all other operations performed and represent liberation for women is liberation from the family and
a national disgrace. Inflation tears not only at the into the work force:
economic security of families; it attacks the institu-
tion of the family itself because it forces the mother Woman can be emancipated only
out of the home and into the work force. This compels when she can take part on a large
the parents to send their pre-school children into social scale in production and is
child-care centers to be attended by strangers, unless engaged in domestic work only to an
they are among those fortunate enough to have either Insignificant degree. And this has
relatives or friends willing to baby-sit. In any case, the become possible only in the big in-
Ideal mother-child relationship is frustrated. Another dustry of modern time, which not on-
indication of the anti-family mentality is the rampant ly admits of female labor on a grand
use of contraceptives. Still another is the repeal of scale but even formally demands
many laws prohibiting homosexual practices. And all lt…(21)
of the above attacks upon the family are in one man- Why these pioneer Communists insist that women
ner or another endorsed by the feminists. merge Into a collectivized labor group as a step
Not surprisingly, many Establishment figures have towards abolishing the family is seen in the following
announced that the family is near death and must be quote from Marx' work, The German Ideology: "That
replaced. New Deal economist and author Ferdinand the abolition of individual economy is inseparable
Lundberg, for example, maintains that "the family as from the abolition of the family is self-evident." (22)
an institution is in fact near the point of complete ex- This contempt for the family carries over quite clearly
tinction." Nancy Lehmann and Helen Sullinger, in a in so many of the American feminists who support the
feminist statement entitled "The Document", con- Equal Rights Amendment. Roxanne Dunbar, in her
tend: essay, "Female Liberation As the Basis For Social
The nuclear family (i.e., two parents
Revolution", pays homage to the Communists,
with dependent children • JKW) must
stating: " … we (women's liberation· JKW) have taken
be replaced with a new form of family
the basic tools of Marxist analysis (dialectic and
where individuals live and work
historical materialism) and expanded the under-
together to help meet the needs of all
standing of the process of change." (23) She
people in the society. New space
elaborates:
must be found to house this family continued on next page
4
cont. from page 4
us remove this proposal from the regions of
abstract and return It to the real world;
Our of women as an ex- we could perhaps lull into a false
ploited caste is not new. Marx by dismissing as merely the
Engels as as other nineteenth· a wild-eyed revolutionary. Would ratifica-
century and communist tion the in any way ideas to life
theorists the position of the and, if so, what would be the changes in U.S.
female sex in Just such a way. If ERA would the creation
identified family as "the of such public child care as it would be
unit of capitalist society, argued women cannot compete on an equal
female oppression. The modern in- basis with men unless they can tum their children
dividual is founded on the over to watched. All taxpayers would be required
open or concealed domestic to help finance this subversion. real danger to the
of modern society is a youngsters be that they be given heavy
mass composed of these doses of Humanism. Already, is being
as its molecules." taught devastating effects to children In public
"within family, he (the man) is the grade It is atheistic, socialistic, interna-
bourgeois and the wife represents tionalist. (If that sounds like Marxism to you, you are
the proletariat." not Alan Stang has done an excellent job of un-
(Frederick Engels, Origin of the masking Humanism in his article in the September,
ly, Private Property, and the 1981 of American Opinion.). For pre-school
(24) children to be subjected to it could go a long way
towards fulfilling Khrushchev's assurance to
Her perception the situation sounds altogether like Americans in the late 1950's that their grandchildren
that of her feminist "sisters" that we quoted earlier: would be communists.
The new sense of collective action
among women is fast destroying the While the Communists we have cited pertaining to
decadent family ideology along with the family were theorists who never lived to see Com-
its ugly Individualism and com- munism actually assume power In any country, it
petitiveness and complacency. Our should be shown that those Communists who later
demand for collective public chiid enslaved nations actually did carry out the earlier
care is throwing into question the ideas with amazing faithfulness. In Soviet Russia,
private family (or individual) owner- just after the first World War, the All-Russian
ship of children. (25) Congress of Worker and Peasant Women was formed
in November, 1918. A year later the group met in
It is only proper that Roxanne Dunbar, operating as Petrograd (now Leningrad) and formulated a program
she does from a analysis" of the problem, that, read today, does not sound at that different
would reach the Marxist "solution" · the abolition of from the program proposed by feminist backers of
the family. She does not disappoint us: the Included in the 1919 were: collective
child-rearing (i.e., "child-care") institutions, State·
How will the family unit be controlled maternities, the commitment to introduce
destroyed? After all, women must women in ever greater numbers Into the economy (in-
take care of the children, and there cluding in factories and shops), communal living
will continue to be children. Our de- arrangements, wherever possible, to eliminate "in-
mand for full-time child care in the dividual economy", and, in general, efforts to make
public schools will be met to some men and women "equal". The slogan adopted by that
degree all over, and perhaps fully in group clearly underlined its total support for the Marx-
places. The alleviation of the duty of ian aim of the destruction of the traditional family
full-time child care in private situa- structure, as it maintained that "the separation of the
tions will free many women to make kitchen from marriage is as vital as the separation of
decisions they could not before. But the church from the state". (27)
more than that, the demand alone
will throw the whole ideology of the
family into question, so that women Five years later the Communist International in a
can begin establishing a community plenary session, seeing that the perpetuation of the
of work with each other (sic) and we family was a major stumbling block hindering its
can fight collectively. Women be plans for a Communist world, this statement:
freer to their husbands and "The Is impotent as as the notion of
become economically Independent, the of family relations continues to exist."
either through a job or welfare. (28) (emphasis added) Then, in the Communist
Caesars revealed their "Constitution". Article 122 of
continued on next page
5
cont. from page 5 housework ls highly unproductive,
most barbarous and most arduous,
that document reads as follows: "In Soviet Russia and it is performed by women. This
woman enjoys the same rights as men in all respects labor is extremely petty and contains
of economic, cultural, public, and political life." {29) nothing that would In the slightest
Does this sound familiar? Let us not be deceived by degree facilitate the development of
such lofty language, since such widely held beliefs as women. {31)
"peace", "freedom", "justice'\ and "human rights" How were these "equal rights" actually im-
have, when spoken by a Communist, radically dif- plemented? In his book, Worker's Paradise Lost, jour-
ferent meanings from the ordinary senses of the nalist Eugene Lyons explored the subject at length:
words. In order to know what they mean we have to A few words are in order about the liv-
look elsewhere. To find out exactly what the state- ing conditions of Soviet women,
ment means, what the term "the same rights" in- whose supposed new "equality" is
volves, we turn to another statement from the Com-
always touted in communist pro-
intern: paganda. Actually, they have no more
Social equality of man and woman
privileges, in law or in the economy,
before the law and in practical life.
than their sisters in the West – unless
Radical transformation in conjugal
employment on hard and dangerous
rights and the family code. Recogni-
jobs normally reserved for men can
tion of maternity as a social function.
be rated as a privilege. Back in 1931, I
Making a social charge of the care of
remember, the young Jack Howard,
children and adolescents. The new head of Scripps-Howard
osganizing of a civilizing struggle
Newspapers, wrote a series of ar-
against the ideology and the tradi-
ticles after a visit to Soviet Russia.
tions that make woman a slave … (30)
The first of them (I quote f ram
Again we are confronted with goals not at all unlike memory) began something like this:
those of U.S. feminists. Because of the similarity of "No sooner had I crossed the border
goals It might prove instructive to take the Comintern than I saw Russian women enjoying
declaration point by point and observe how each has their new equality • they were carry-
been put into practice in the U.S.S.R. In such a man- ing logs."
ner we can see what the ERA holds for America.
Thirty-six years later (now, in 1981, fif-
(1) Social equality of man and woman before the law ty years later· JKW), they are still car-
and in practical life. Vladimir Lenin has provided us rying logs, digging ditches, sweeping
with the clearest exposition of what equality means streets, laying bricks, carrying hods,
in the Bloshevik scheme of things. In the text of a scrubbing decks of ships, tending
speech intitled The Tasks of the Working Women's furnaces in steel mills and doing
Movement in the Soviet Republic, given on September other "men's work". The employment
23, 1919, we read: of women in coal mines was pro-
As long as women are engaged in hibited in England in 1842; a century
housework their position is still a and more later the Soviet press was
restricted one. In order to achieve the boasting of the high output by
complete emancipation of women women's brigades in coal pits.
and to make them really equal with (latest industry estimates now show
men, we must have social economy, women to hold 11 % of all jobs as
and the participation of women in coal miners in the United States.)
general productive labor. Then
women will occupy the same position Nearly 50 per cent of the wage-
as men. This, of course, does not earners in the U.S.S.R. are women,
mean that women must be exactly compared with less than per cent
equal with men in pro<:Juctivity of in the United States (the U.S. ratio in
labor, amount of labor, its duration, 1976, only a decade after Mr. Lyons
conditions of labor, etc. But it does had written these words, had become
meao that women shall not be in an more Sovietized. According to the
opressed economic position com- World Almanac of 1979 the
pared with men. You all know that male/female ratio was almost exactly
even with the fullest equality, women 60/40. The three surgical tools of
are still in an actual position of in- subversion In this case – feminist lob-
feriority because all housework is bying, government employment
thrust upon them. Most of this regulations, and inflation . are being
continued on next page
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cont. from page 6 informants against their very own parents!
used by the Master Conspiracy's doc- A fair question some readers might be asking at this
tors to perform a major operation on moment is whether the fact that the Communists
the patient, that is, victim – the allow the family to exist in some form in Russia while
American family. The doctors' pro- at the same time are doing everything in their power
gnosis for the patient: terminal. – to wreck the family in the U.S. represents a contradic-
JKW). The principal reason for this, of tion. It may seem that way, but actually there is no
course, is that the male head of a contradiction here because we are discussing two en-
family rarely can support it by his tirely different countries. In the U.S.S.R., we are
own labor. The pretense that women discussing a nation that has been under totalitarian
prefer outside work to what Lenin rule for over 60 years. The leaders of that unlawful
once called "the primitive and regime have come to realize that the preservation of
deadening tasks of the household" is some semblance of a family is actually desirable as it
largely a progaganda myth. helps them maintain order. On the other hand,
The truth is that working class America is a prize that has up to now eluded . thanks
women have no choice. Though they be to God · their grasp. Since part of the Red battle
work in a factory or office, they still plan against us has been the attack from within (i.e.,
carry their responsibilities as wives internal subversion), it follows that a chief target of
and mothers, doing the cooking and that attack would be that very same cornerstone in
washing and housecleaning at home. the maintenance of the social order – the family.
They still must combine care of their
children with the outside employ- To anyone reading this article who may still doubt the
ment. Those who have an old mother premise or who does not quite see the application,
or mother-in-law living with them and consider the following: The late Fr. Bernard A. Kunkel,
helping with the chores are the lucky founder of the Marylike Crusade (to battle the im-
ones. Soviet men have no more ap- modest fashions of our day), wrote an article in the
petite or talents for household tasks Conciliar Catholic· and sometimes excellent -tabloid,
than men elsewhere. (32) Divine Love, that exposed Communist connections in
the immorality which is rampant in our land. In the ar-
(2) Radical transformation in conjugal rights and the
ticle, "Certain Fas_hions Will Be Introduced That Will
family code. The marital and familial subversion
Offend Our Lord Very Much" · that title taken from
which took place in Russia after the 1917 Revolution
Our Lady's prophetic utterances at Fatima – Fr.
has been concisely enumerated by Fr. Newman C.
Kunkel reveals that Dr. Bella Dodd (the leading U.S.
Eberhardt, C.M. in his Summary of Catholic History:
woman Communist who renounced the Party and pro-
Libertine excess was allowed and vided Congressional committees much valuable in-
even encouraged; "bourgeois morali- formation on activities of Communists in our country)
ty" was ridiculed; civil marriage in- stated that the Communists are financing the majori-
troduced, conbinage condoned, ty of pornographic literature in the United States. (35)
parental rights unrecognized, il- Similar studies in other countries have shown similar
legitimate children placed on a par subversion. However, when we observe life in the
with legitimate, and "postcard Soviet Union we notice the censorship of such
divorces" sanctioned. (33) obscene materials. Why is this? Simply because the
The U.S.S.R. has never fully carried out its concept of nation that has already been captured needs to be
the "nationalization of women", and it has allowed held by the preservation of civil society … otherwise,
the monogamous family to exist in an embattled sort the conquerers may well find themselves being over-
of way. In Masters of Russian Marxism Thornton thrown. So, the Communists are certainly not in-
Anderson has remarked that "Rudolf Schlesinger terested in upholding any moral principle here (in
(author of The Family in the U.S.S.R. • JKW) has made Russia); rather they are interested only in what will
the shrewd suggestion that the retention of the sustain and strengthen their power.
private family in the Soviet Union is connected with
the problem of incentives to work: the support of (3) Recognition of maternity as a social function. In
children in the home provides a powerful spur to the the. matter of maternity in the U.S.S.R. we find
parents." (34) perhaps the clearest example of the Communist
Another reason for the decision involves the degree claim that the individual was created for the State in
of social intimacy found in the traditional family. contrast to the Christian position that the State was
Because the family has this to a far greater extent created for the individual.
than any communal arrangements possibly could, the
dictatorship observed it could use this very closeness When we as Catholics discuss motherhood we
as a weapon against the family by pitting family should, of course, reflect on the sanctity of life. And it
members against one another. Children are used as is because of that sanctity that we do well to consider
continued on next page
7
cont. from page 7
maternity. Representative of thinking is Betty
when she remarks that motherhood has had
abortion as an offense so abominable as to cry out to "a kind false sanctity attached to It." (37)
Heaven for Naturally, the Communist's
materialistic view human life any
"'"""''"'''"' a social charge of the care of and
acknowledgement the sanctity and As we have mentioned this is
ty of human has been as one the most insidious of the as it strips
said, for he would rather see 99 Inno- authority the parents it in the State.
cent people hang than for one guilty to go In Union, the Ministry Health operates
free. for young children, from ten weeks to three
years old. (38) It has been that the state
It is with that sort of background that we examine nurseries care little if the mother is given her own
Soviet abortion Encyclopedia in at the end of the day, and even condone such
writing on the "birth control", has us on the grounds that It to break parents
this account custom caring for one's own
most religions con-
abortion, ap-
plication of severe criminal sanc- No one defended such with as much
tions to deter its practice became vigor as Simone deBeauvior, the French Marxist-
common only in the 19th century; in- who was the lifelong mistress of the
duced abortion was usually late playwright Jean-Paul Sarte. Second Sex,
but was sometimes permitted or in which she argues that "the of women and
lor,!:ll't,,,rl to preserve the life the are intimately together", is on
The first important every feminist reading" list in
from the century pattern came in States. (39) One Is ERA promoter
the in 1920, when who credited deBeauvior for hav-
government -·-·–·~ me on a road on I'll moving."
abortion at the request of the choice state-operated
in another decree child care (Miss deBeauvior's Is Red China)
legal practice, but in and private care, Miss deBeauvlor insisted:
abortion on request was restored.
No, we don't believe
So, the model that Western governments have should be authorized to at home
selected for their abortion laws is to raise her children. Society should
though this come as little surprise to informed be totally different Women should
students of the conspiracy. is most not have the choice, precisely
interesting in the policy is the because if there is a choice, too
In 1920, three usurping power, the Reds many women will one. It is
repealed on abortions; they a way of forcing women in a certain
must have seen that by legalizing them they would direction. (41; to this, Mrs. Friedan
dramatically reduce future population growth, thus taken slight exception, saying
aiding them In their "redistribution of wealth". In she is "at the moment" against the
1936, with the prospect of a major war • and thus a coercive aspect of the proposal,
sizable loss of – Imminent, the Soviets under though not against the child care pro-
Stalin moved to make abortions again in gram in general· JKW)
hopes of assuring that the war would not take too
great a toll on the In 1955, the ~?ncem w~s of a against the
over de-populizing rather than re-popullzmg Russia. ,n'"•nu,nv and traditions that make woman a slave.
The decade the end of the Second World The Communists have always that women
War was one of a growth of population in the have had the ability to a. great role in
U.S.S.R., similar to the "baby boom" taking place in stabilizing a culture; as a nation's women go, so goes
the U.S. Therefore, ban on abortions was again that nation. it was with this in that Lenin told
lifted in order to the rate of growth. German Communist Kiara Zetkin that:
We see, then, the considerations by the
The Communist women's movement
Communists were made totally out of expedience.
must itself be a mass movement, a
Such is called situation ethics In
part of a general mass
America. what you will of the abortion
movement…There can no real
plans, they are entirely effective. Entirely effe~tive
mass movement without
-and entirely It should be noted that American
feminists have time and again expressed their con-
tempt for the traditional attitudes towards marriage continued on next page
8
cont. from page 8
human dignity, that the rights of the
husband and the wife are equal;
wherefore, they boldly proclaim, the
women … Unless millions of women emancipation of women has been or
are with us we cannot exercise the should be effected. This emancipa-
proletarian dictatorship, cannot con- tion in their ideas must be threefold,
struct on Communist lines. We must in the ruling of the domestic society,
find our way to them, we must study in the administration of family affairs
and try to find that way. (42) and in the rearing of children …
Could today's feminist movement be part of that
mass movement? Again, please remember that we This, however, is not the true eman-
are speaking specifically about the leaders of this cipation of woman, nor the rational
movement. The vast majority of ERA supporters are and exalted liberty which belongs to
sincere people who are supporting it because it the noble office of a Christian woman
sounds like it Is a noble cause. They should not be at- and wife; it is rather the debasing of
tacked but rather should be enlightened as to the real the womanly character and the digni-
goals of their leaders. Lenin said that Communism ty of motherhood, and indeed of the
must be made with non-Communist hands, so we whole family, as a result of which the
should do all in our power to deprive them of those husband suffers the loss of his wife,
hands by alerting as many of our fellow citizens as the children of their mother, and the
possible about the very real danger threatening our home and the whole family of an ever
country. watchful guardian. More than this,
this false liberty and unnatural
We have spent a good deal of this article showing equality wtth the husband is the detri-
what the Marxist-Feminist professes as her beliefs. ment of the woman herself for, if the
Let us now turn to authentic Catholic teaching to get woman descends from her truly regal
some idea of just what the differences are between throne to which she has been raised
the two. Various pontiffs have felt obliged over the within the walls of the home by
past century to remind the faithful of these dif- means of the Gospel, she will soon
ferences and to remind them as well of their moral be reduced to the old state of slavery
obligation to oppose such anti-Christian ideologies (if not In appearance, certainly in
as feminism. The first encyclical to challenge the reality) and become as among the
false teachings of feminism was Arcanum Divlna.e Sa- pagans the mere instrument of man.
pientiae, written in 1880 by Pope Leo Xiii. In the early (43)
Church St. Paul and St. Augustine both spoke often Pope Pius also condemned feminism In his encyclical
and eloquently on the true Christian relationship of on Communism, Divin/ Redemptoris. (44)
the sexes. A quote from Leo Xlll's Arcanum: "The man
is the ruler of the family, and head of the woman; but His successor to the Throne of Peter, Pope Pius XII,
because she is flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone, also took a firm stand against this kind of subversion.
let her be subject and obedient to the man, not as a In 1956, the New York Times made mention of Pius'
servant but as a companion, so that nothing be lack- speech before several thousand Italian women in an
ing of honor or of dignity In the obedience which she article entitled "Pope Pius Calls Woman Creation's
pays. Let divine charity be the constant guide of their Masterpiece". The article noted that the Pope's
mutual relations, both in him who rules and in her message included the idea that "the physical and
who obeys, since each bears the image, the one of moral make-up of woman demanded discrimination in
Christ, the other of the Church.'' Pope Leo also con- the kind and amount of work that she should do." (45)
demned the "boldness and wickedness of men (who His Holiness went on to say:
would) change and disturb this order of things."
The concept of the woman in the
(source: Five Great Encyclicals; p. 85, p. 107)
shipyards, of the mines, or heavy
Fifty years later, Pope Pius XI added his Casti Con- labor, as It is exalted and practiced
nubii In which he directly addressed the problem: by some countries that would want to
inspire progress is anything but a
The same false teachers who try to modern concept. It is, on the con-
dim the luster of conjugal faith and trary, a sad return to epochs that
purity do not scruple to do away with Christian civilization burled long
the honorable and trusting obedience ago… (46)
which the woman owes the man.
Pope John XXIII broke from the traditional Catholic
Many of them go even further and
viewpoint with a pro-feminist passage in Pacem in
assert that such a subjection of one
Terris. The true position of the Church is "pro-
party to the other is unworthy of
femini ne but anti-feminist".
continued on next page
9
cont. from page 9
abortion In any
adoption of the
Equally sad Is turning away from Catholic social respect to public
principles by in the Conciliar who have conscience
embraced the beliefs of or personnel
have been by them. John F. as of conscience to
president, for a case in point, was by " Not Friedan and
humanist head of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Alan F. back the ERA for this among other
Guttmacher, for warning Americans about the severi- reasons." (source: Schlafly, op. pp. 110-111.)
ty – or, rather, severity • of the population
growth. (47) President Kennedy also a 1961 really just brushed of this issue
Commission on the Status of Women, a in this article but the facts are for any reader
ing for the breakdown of the family, as Is .. n .. c, 1r.. r1 ambitious enough to dig It should be evident
the fact that the commission was our country is in and that we
hyperradical Mead. (48) op1ou::,e In every way this evll
brother, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is a consis- as With this In THE ATHANA·
tent voter for and abortion. His (?) ap- all readers, and non-
parently keeps the American hierarchy from excom- of good wlil, to resist passage of the
municating him (what's stopping Rome?). Conciliar informing family, friends, business
feminists like Dr. Mary Daly denounce true Catholic newspapers and, their con-
teaching as "anti-feminist" (which it is). Radical nuns of the truth about said that, for
"demand" that "sexist" parts of the Bible be the Communist, Ideas are more than guns.
changed. Even worse was Pope Paul meeting But, as we Christians have the light of God on our
with revolutionary Betty Friedan at the Vatican. Dur- side, let us bravely do battle these forces of
ing her private with him, Mrs. was darkness and fight the good
awarded a medal for her feminist activities, and was
told by Pope "We wish to thank you, and con-
gratulate you on your work". The meeting took place
in late October 1973, the very month of the Infamous (The footnotes for this article are found on page 13)
Humanist Manifesto II. (49) Thankfully, some Con-
ciliar groups have opposed ERA (e.g., National Coun-
cil of Catholic Women, Catholic Daughters of
America, and Knights of Columbus), yet
bishops say the
Catholic
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for Catholics. (50,51) Just last month Pope John Paul
II indicated that the Conciliar Church would c.ontinue
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he told an estimated 30,000 people at St. Peter's
Square: "The problem of legal equality between men and black lettering on a white background, it
and women should resolved with social legislation reads: "Traditional Catholics of America – Save
that recognizes the equality of men and women
the Traditional Mass". Also included is our TCA
workers". (Note that this is exactly the opposite of the
address. The cost of these stickers is two
position taken by Pope Pius XII. We help
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the authority to legalize abortions. Apparently, he
does not realize that "equal rights" laws can be a
legal blank check for state-authorized abortions. This
is the belief of Notre Dame Law School Professor
p
Charles Rice among others. And the opinion of Pro-
fessor Rice is not to easily dismissed. Is one of
the leading pro-life spokesmen in the U.S., and is con-
y
sidered a strong contender for a Supreme Court
nomination. Professor Rice, a Conciliar Catholic, has
stated: "If the ERA were adopted, it would make clear
bl
beyond any doubt that the states would be dlsabied
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A Comment And A Request
The article by Mr. Weiskittel in this Issue of the order prices listed elsewhere in these pages). Mr.
newsletter, "Roman Catholics and the Equal Rights Weiskittel's article will thereby be given at least a
Amendment", is a most timely one. Well researched small portion more of the far greater circulation it so
and documented, it leaves no doubt of the close af- justly warrants.
filiation of the radical feminist movement with Com-
munism. This article deserves a far, far wider reader- P.S. Another thought: why not send a copy of this
ship than it can receive from the relatively small cir- issue of The Athanaslan to the Conciliar Church
culation of The Athanasian with its approximately bishop in the confines of whose diocese you happen
1150 subscribers. Hence, it is urgently requested and to reside? He might even read the entire issue, in-
fondly hoped that many of those who receive this cluding the article on the bishops of the American
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A Three-Fold Task For 982
Traditional Catholics of America (TCA) conducts Since its opening, the school has provided an ex-
three important projects simultaneously. The first cellent educational program conducted by well
and most important of these, of course, is the task of qualified traditional Roman Catholic teachers and it
bringing the traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments has been of some help in providing information to the
to as many Catholics as possible. To date, TCA organizers of other schools. Throughout 1982, and
serves eleven chapels and Mass centers around the beyond, Christ the King School intends to continue
country. The search for truly traditional Roman its fine educational program and to keep all who are
Catholic priests to help TCA in this effort will con- interested informed of the school's progress. Copies
tinue with increased vigor in 1982. of the school brochure and periodical news of the
school will be sent to subscribers of The Athanasian
A second task of Traditional Catholics of America is in 1982. Christ the King School is not · and never was
that of providing information to Roman Catholics intended to be . "provincial" or the property of any
through the printed word. The major instrument for one chapel. It exists to serve traditional Roman
accomplishing this is The Athanasian. An important Catholics everywhere.
goal for 1982 is to sharply increase the number of
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some of our readers helped us get The Athanasian in- continued dedication to the achievement of these
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While we sincerely appreciate the help of these on the grace of God, to be sure, and on the will-
readers, the aid of many more is needed if the efforts ingness of the readers of The Athanasian to lend their
of our TCA in the field of traditional Catholicism are wholehearted support throughout 1982 to our TCA
to make a significant impact on the American scene. apostolate.
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Those the Conciliar Church • Again
Francis E. Fenton
It was a former General Secretary of the Communist The situation in Latin America offers perhaps the best
International, Georgi Dimitrov, who said that "a example of "Catholic" bishops and priests who are
university professor or writer who defends or lends either out and out Communists or who are openly and
himself to the interest of the Soviet Union is worth brazenly advancing the Communist cause In word or
more that a thousand party members." If that state- deed. Some of the top positions in the Communist
ment true of a professor or author or actor, how Sandinista government in Nicaragua are held by
much more applicable it is to a clergyman, say, a "priests" ("Father" Miguel d'Escoto, for example). It
bishop or priest? More and more of late these words is common knowledge that "priests" are working with
of Communist Dimitrov come to mind as I behold the the Reds in Salvador. Throughout Latin America
sorry spectacle of the bishops of the Conciliar the pro-Communism of various bishops of the Con-
"Catholic" Church in this country aiding and abetting ciliar Church is beyond question. Perhaps the most
the Communist cause by their widely publicized notorious of these is Mexican Bishop Mendez Arceo
declarations and positions relating to El Salvador, who, if he is not a member of the Communist Party, is,
nuclear weapons, sex education in the schools, etc. as the saying goes, certainly cheating the Party of his
Are any of these bishops actually Communists? I dues. Need it be said that all of these "bishops" and
don't know . but I do not discount the possibility. If "priests" are in good standing with the non-Catholic
any one of them were known to be, then, of course – in Conciliar "Catholic" Church?
line with the Dimitrov statement above · his efforts in
promoting the Communist cause would be ineffec- But there is no need for us in the USA to look beyond
tive. A bishop or priest in the USA even though in our nation's borders to find so-called Catholic
fact he be a Communist . must retain a public image bishops and priests who in one way or another are,
of respectability and preserve an aura of goodness humanly speaking, destroying the Church and who
and holiness so as not to alienate those whom he are more and more openly doing their part to bring
wishes favorably to Impress. down the country. Limiting my comments for the re-
mainder of this article to the bishops of the American
In 1955 a former member of the French Communist Conciliar "Catholic" Church, I find it difficult to
Party, Albert Bassart, stated that "in 1936 Moscow believe – even in this crazy world in which we live. that
sent out an order to have sure and carefully selected these bishops are actually saying and doing what
Communist youth enter the seminaries and become they are actually saying and doing on such subjects
priests." (The Techniques of Soviet Propaganda, as El Salvador, abortion, ERA, sex education (in-
Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, 1960, p. 7). cluding "Catholic" schools), the possession of
Although isolated cases have come to light (such as nuclear weapons, etc., to say nothing of such silly an-
that of the Jesuit "Father" Alighiero Tondi in the tics of theirs as the removal of the "sexist" language
1950's), it is anybody's guess how many hundreds or in their Nevus Ordo service. One of them has made
thousands of those handpicked Communist youth of the statement that even the mere possession of
years past are today masquerading as clergymen nuclear weapons is immoral. I wonder where he learn-
around the world. including Conciliar Church bishops ed his moral theology. Another has declared that the
and priests. (Back in the 40's and 50's, because there USA, if attacked by Soviet Russia, should "surrender
were genuine Roman Catholic seminaries in those to the invader"! Many scores of examples could
days, it must have taken quite a bit of doing for a readily be presented of the pitiable state of the Con-
Communist to complete the arduous seminary ciliar Church episcopate.
routine and to get himself "ordained". In the country
club seminaries now in vogue, that is a much simpler The National Council of Catholic Bishops is the of-
undertaking). For a number of years I subscrlbed to ficial body of bishops of the American Conciliar
the position that priests don't become Communists Church. There ls, of course, not a truly traditional
but that Communists become priests, and bishops. bishop in the whole lot (over 300). Indeed, if there is
I'm now inclined to think that the first part of that even a solidly conservative bishop among them, I
statement is no longer true. In other words, I believe haven't the slightest Idea who he might be. (The "con-
that it is not at all unlikely today that some very servative" Pope John Paul II has occupied the papal
liberal, leftist priests and bishops may in due time throne for some three years now and has yet to ap-
become, or have become, Communists. Of course, I point a conservative, much less a traditional, bishop
also believe that an Increasing number of men com- in this country). As a body, the National Councll of
ing out of today's Conciliar Church seminaries and (so-called) Catholic Bishops is a scandal and, more
being "ordained" aren't priests at all. and more, a laughingstock among honorable Inform-
12 continued on next page
cont. from page 12 14) IBID, p. 153
15) Friedan, ibid., p. 355
ed Roman Catholics and others. To excuse them, as 16) Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, trans. Samuel Moore, The Communist
Manifesto (NY: Washington Square Press, 1971), p. 87
some people honestly attempt to do, on the score that
they mean well is, I submit, an unacceptable explana- 17) quoted in Gary E. Mccuen & David L Bender, ed., The Sexual Revoiution
(Anoka, MN: Green Haven Press, 1972), p. 3
tion. To contend that they mean well is to say, by im-
plication, that, among other things, they are deficient 18) IBID, p. 5
in moral theology, that they are unpatriotic, and that 19) Mccuen & Bender, ibid., p. 12
they lack common sense · all of which may be true
20) IBID, pp. 17-18
enough. It is my contention, however, that a far more
accurate analysis of the National Council of Catholic 21) quoted in Simone de Beauvior, trans. & ed. H. M. Parshley, The Second
Sex (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953), p. 55
Bishops would hold that some of them are hopelessly
brainwashed, some are cowards, and some are on the 22) Robert C. Tucker, ed., The Marx-Engels Reader (New York: W.W. Norton,
1972), p. 121, note 3
side of the Church's enemies. And could it be that
some, if not many, of them have simply lost the Faith? 23) from Robin Morgan, ed., Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings
from the Women's Liberation Movement (NY: Random House, 1970), p. 486
I think it could very well be.
24) IBID
25) Morgan, ibid., p. 487
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subscription is due for renewal. At the proper time, 30) de Beauvior, ibid.
a subscription envelope will be enclosed with the 31) Stefan T. Possony, ed., Lenin Reader (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1966), pp.
newsletter. One may enter a new subscription at 73-74
any time, of course, and will then receive the eight 32) Eugene Lyons, Workers' Paradise Lost (New York: Paperback Library,
following newsletter issues. 1967), pp. 239-240
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Louis: Herder, 1962), p. 706
34) Thornton Anderson, Masters of Russian Marxism (New York: Appleton-
Century-Crofts, 1963), p. 169, note 13
Footnotes 35) Fr. Bernard A. Kunkel, "Certain Fashions Will Be Introduced … ", Divine
Love, Volume 20, Number 4
Roman Catholics and the Equal Rights Amendment
– John Kenneth Weiskitte/ 36) Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 2 (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1974),
p. 1069
1) Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman, (New York: Jove Books, 37) Friedan, op. cit., p. 312
1978), pp. 113-114
38) see, for example, Kenneth R. Whiting, The Soviet Union Today: A Concise
2) Henry Campbell Black, A Law Dictionary, 2nd ed., (St. Paul: West Pub., Handbook (NY: Praeger, 1962), p. 238
1910), p. 431
39) de Beauvior, op. cit., p. 55
3) The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York: McGraw-
Hill, 1973), V. 8, p. 275 40) Friedan, op. cit., p. 306
4) Eugene H. Methvin, The Rise of Radicalism (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington 41) IBID, p. 312
House, 1973), pp. 370-372
42) Mary R. Beard, Woman As A Force In History (New York: MacMillan, 1946),
5) Elizabeth Janeway, Women: Their Changing Roles (New York: Arno Press, p.3
1973), p.88
43) Five Great Encyclicals (New York: Paulis! Press, 1951), p. 198
6) IBID, p. 10
44) see IBID, p. 181
7) Alice Rossi, ed., The Feminist Papers, 2nd ed. (New York: Bantam, 1974), p.
508 45) Janeway, op. cit., p. 250
8) The Review of the News, August 2, 1978, pp. 57, 59 46) IBID
9) Janeway, op. cit., p. 389 47) Janeway, ibid., p. 371
10) Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Woman's Movement 48) lshbel Ross, Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve (NY: Harper & Row, 1969), p.
(New York: Random House, 1976), p. 384 250
11) IBID, p.8 49) Friedan, op. cit., p. 287
12) Janeway, op. cit., p. 395 50) Schlafly, op. cit., p. 291
13) Friedan, op. cit., p. 147 51) National Now Times, February, 1981
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