Archbishop to UN: “Feminine Genius” is at Core of Women’s Equality

Last updated on: March 24, 2015 at 4:10 pm by Lisa M. Hendey

Archbishop to UN: “Feminine Genius” is at Core of Women’s Equality 2015-03-24T11:50:58-07:00 Lisa M. Hendey

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CNA has a great recap today of Archbishop Auza’s recent addresses at the United Nations on the occasion of International Woman’s Day. His remarks centered largely around the Feminine Genius in the effort to protect and uplift women’s right and equality:

The feminine genius, Archbishop Auza said, is linked deeply to “solidarity in caring for the vulnerable and in creating a better world.” While governments are tasked with ensuring a just society and the respect of all persons’ rights, “some members of our human family fall into cracks, or have disabilities and other risk factors that even well-ordered and just societies may overlook or pay less attention to.”

In cases like these, “they need people who care, who treat them with the love that accords with the fullness of their human dignity,” a task to which women are uniquely attuned, he explained.

via Want women’s equality? Don’t downplay ‘feminine genius,’ Holy See tells UN :: Catholic News Agency (CNA).

Read the full article here.

I’m reminded in reading Archbishop Ausa’s remarks that those of us in the West often have a perception of “women’s issues” that neglects the very real struggles faced by our sisters in other parts of the world. While we grapple with women’s roles in the Church and in society, mothers and daughters around the world grapple with the provision of food and clean water for their families, with finding adequate healthcare or education for their children, and with a definition of “marriage” that is very far from our own.

Do we give us the struggle here to find our place in the Church and in our world? No. But let’s never neglect a compassion that calls us to continually advocate on behalf of those most in need in our world.

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