Thursday, August 22, 2019

Women Working a "Good Thing"?

A Catholic lecture-circuit woman from Louisiana tweets ....umnnhhhh...."wisdom."

St. Gianna Beretta Molla was a physician 
St. Zelie Martin was a lacemaker 
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton & 
St. Katharine Drexel built schools 
St. Joan of Arc was a soldier 
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was a philosopher 
So it looks like women working IS a good thing...huh. Wow.
 Without going into that whole debate, we can make an observation that Ms. Katie avoids:

ONLY TWO OF THOSE WOMEN WERE MARRIED WITH KIDS, those being St. Gianna and St. Zelie.

It's not so easy to make a case for mothers working outside the home, especially if fathers are ALSO working outside the home, given the sociology we have today.  'Fess up, Katie.

2 comments:

Mary Martha said...

St. Gianna very much was married with kids and a physician.

Dad29 said...

You read my post exactly right!!

But note also: the lace biz was an "in-home" biz, and it's likely that St Gianna's practice was also home-based, as was the custom even here in the USA through the 1940's.