Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The New Catholic Manliness
My friend Todd M. Aglialoro has a new Crisis article about recovering manliness in the Church. He is not advocating a return to a strict, aloof paternalism, but a recovery of understanding of the "natural gender differences" between men and women. This includes acknowledging that the masculine - not simply men, but truly masculine men - is needed in the Church.
Msgr. Stuart Swetland, director of Pre-Theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, agrees that in Christian spirituality “the default position is always going to be the feminine,” because we are fundamentally called “to be receptive to God, to give way to His agenda.” But he insists that “there is a way to do this without being ‘effeminate’—a properly masculine way to yield to God’s active principle.”
As Todd points out, the new breed of seminarian is learning this "properly masculine way to yield to God" as are many young men, especially young family men.
h/t AMSCOL Pioneer
Msgr. Stuart Swetland, director of Pre-Theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, agrees that in Christian spirituality “the default position is always going to be the feminine,” because we are fundamentally called “to be receptive to God, to give way to His agenda.” But he insists that “there is a way to do this without being ‘effeminate’—a properly masculine way to yield to God’s active principle.”
As Todd points out, the new breed of seminarian is learning this "properly masculine way to yield to God" as are many young men, especially young family men.
h/t AMSCOL Pioneer
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