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THE “CURSE OF EVE” (opens the original)
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A popular claim says women inherit from Eve a distinctive “curse”: a desire to control their husbands.Genesis certainly gives Eve particular consequences after the Fall.But does Scripture define those consequences as a hereditary female control-drive?And is that how the Fathers and the Magisterium understand Genesis 3:16?Be Her Leader is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<for
6 “PATRIARCHY” MYTHS (opens the original)
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The Church has historically taught a real primacy or headship of the husband within marriage.But where does Catholic doctrine end and private patriarchal theory begin?Authentic Tradition requires us to defend what the Church actually teaches, without adding doctrines of our own.FIRST: THE PROBLEM OF CREDULITYTraditional Catholic moral theology calls it credulity when someone accepts a doctrine as revealed without prudent grounds, especially when private opinions are presented as doctrines Cathol
How To Think About Marital Headship (opens the original)
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In Casti Connubii, Pius XI affirms the husband’s primacy and the wife’s real obedience, but he immediately says that her subjection doesn’t require obedience to every request where it isn’t consonant with “right reason” or “the dignity due to a wife.” He also says her subjection doesn’t reduce her to the legal status of a minor.McHugh & Callan, in their manual of moral theology, make the principle even more explicit: “obedience is due a husband in domestic matters in which he is head of the hous
You Keep Confessing What You Did, Not What You Refused to Do (opens the original)
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A man goes to confession and names the obvious sins:He watched porn. He snapped at his wife. He missed prayer. He lied about something small. He entertained resentment. He wasted time on his phone. He looked too long, spoke too harshly, drank too much, or lost his temper with the children.And he should confess those sins plainly.But many husbands leave confession having named only the sins they committed, not the duties they abandoned. They confess the thing they did and leave untouched the good
Stop Calling It Procrastination (opens the original)
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“Procrastination” is often too shallow a word because it describes the symptom without naming the vice.You say, “I procrastinate,” and that can become a strangely comfortable explanation because it sounds like merely a productivity problem. Maybe you need a better app, a cleaner system, a sharper to-do list, or some clever trick to get motivated. You can talk about procrastination for years without ever naming cowardice, softness, curiosity, negligence, acedia, or the quiet preference for comfor
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