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Pope warns feminists

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azahar

"Is the Pope a feminist?"

"The Vatican's statement about the role of women has been greeted with worldwide astonishment. But there's no reason to despair, says Germaine Greer - this could be the best thing that has happened to feminism in years."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1276145,00.html

"Catholic feminists who snatch at the straw of the Pope's statement that housework should be paid for should remember that Wojtyla cannot imagine a world in which housework is done by anyone but women. His Holiness's lavatory is cleaned by nuns."


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