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LTACL: Women Torn Apart? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) · The Catholic Current

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  One of the greatest troublemakers of all time was Sigmund Freud,
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  and he did ask though a very important question. He asked, what do
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  women want? Never really gave a good answer
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  to that question. I'll say this much, whatever it is that women want
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  now, I think that most of them don't have it because they seem
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  to me to be by and large very unhappy.
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  And I think hear me out. I think I
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  might know where to look for an answer to that. I think I might know
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  why they're unhappy. Stay with me, got a story to tell.
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  Hi, I'm Jesuit Father Robert McTeague, your host every day of The Catholic Current,
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  coming to you from the Station of the Cross Catholic Media Network. Let's take
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  a closer look. Glad you're here.
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  If you want to have multiple lifetimes worth of reading on your
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  reading list, just type in the words why are women unhappy today?
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  And Google will give you millions and millions of years worth of explanations
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  as to why women are so unhappy today. Well, what would
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  make women happy? Well, if you believe American popular media, which I don't recommend,
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  uh, American popular media would tell you that women will be happy
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  if and only if they
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  have more and, of course, free contraceptives
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  and abortions, fewer or no children,
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  more and free daycare, more and better paid work in a government-secured
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  work environment marked by diversity,
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  equity, and inclusion, if they can
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  spend more time away from home and family, if they can have more and
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  easier divorce. If they have all those things,
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  then only then will women be
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  happy? Or said another way,
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  without those things, they can't possibly be happy.
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  That's what American popular media would have us believe. And you
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  know what? Let's put this to the test. Close your eyes.
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  We'll do a little thought experiment. Think of the women you know who contracept,
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  women who've had abortions, women who have children
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  in daycare, who work outside of the home at least 40 hours
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  a week, how many of them would you describe as happy,
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  flourishing, thriving,
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  peaceful, empowered?
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  Hmm. Let's raise the stakes. How many women do you know who have filed for
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  divorce reporting marital dissatisfaction who
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  now describe themselves as satisfied?
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  You can let me know in the comments below or write me at thestationofthecross.com/askfather.
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  Here's my point: I think women have been sold
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  a bill of goods for a really long time.
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  They seem to be at odds with themselves, at odds with men,
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  at odds with nature, and odds with God. Uh,
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  things that should should fit,
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  things that should make sense.
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  That doesn't seem to be happening. Rather,
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  things are being torn apart.
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  Things are being sundered. What do I mean by that?
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  Well, female from male.
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  Men and women, you don't have to think about it very long to figure
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  out, at least apparently, it looks like they belong together.
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  Um, and if you think about it,
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  uh, sex and fertility should belong together.
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  If you think about it, sex and marriage should
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  belong together. Children and family should belong
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  together. And yet women
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  are told that they can't be happy unless and until
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  men are separated from women,
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  or better said, are opposed to one another.
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  And they can only— once they're empowered by telling everyone
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  the female is— the future is female,
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  see, all that sort of thing. So they're being told that. They're told that,
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  no, we don't need to have sex related to marriage. We certainly
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  don't want to have sex related to fertility. Pills, pills,
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  pills, surgery, go live happily ever after. And it hasn't
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  worked out. Why not? Because there are certain things that should be
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  together and are being torn apart. I've been thinking about that.
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  There is a word in biblical Greek that indicates
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  a tearing apart which should be
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  together. It's called diabolain.
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  Diabolain, diabolos,
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  diabolic. Oh,
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  so maybe I'm willing to consider other options, but maybe
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  one of the reasons that so many women
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  are so unhappy, as evidenced
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  by their constant psychotropic medication and their boundless
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  enthusiasm for abortion and child murder and infanticide,
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  at least for those who are getting the big hits on TikTok and
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  Instagram and whatnot, Maybe it's because they are
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  being torn apart by a spiritual
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  enemy who is not only an enemy of
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  human nature, but the divine nature as well.
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  So for all the political solutions,
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  if only we have more of this, if only we have more money,
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  if only we have more equality, if only we have more of this and less
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  of that, I don't think any of it is
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  going to work unless and until we look
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  at the spiritual roots, the diabolical
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  origin of women being torn apart
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  from their own human nature, their own distinctively
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  God-given feminine human nature.
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  It's a shocking proposition these days. It would probably
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  get me thrown off a lot of college campuses, but I want to know what
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  you think. Let me know, uh, in the comments below.
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  Contact me at thestationofthecross.com/askfather.
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  I want to continue this series on why women are
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  in such difficulty, why they are in distress, why so
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  many of them are so unhappy. And why so many of
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  them seem to be driven to a murderous rage.
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  We can't remain silent about this anymore. Meanwhile,
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  think of these things today, take them to prayer, and talk about it
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  with those you love. Go in peace, and please do pray for me,
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  for I am a sinner.