Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living understanding and defending

your Catholic faith.

There's some accusation against the Catholic faith actually that perhaps it has strains

of misogyny in it, maybe a strains of a kind of old way of thinking about men and women

that makes men the superiors of women or requires that women not be engaged in many of

the activities that have been traditionally male activities.

Is all of this true or is the Christian faith, a faith that truly is rooted in the idea

that men and women are equal?

Dr. Debra Savage is our guest this time visiting professor right now at Franciscan University

in St.Ville and has formally taught at St. Paul's seminary School of Divinity at the University

of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, Dr. Savage, thank you for being with us.

Thank you for having me.

This is an area that you are very familiar with, the world's view of men and women and the

church's view or the revealed view of the anthropology of men and women.

They don't agree anymore these two.

That is the Christian view has lost some of its purchase.

What do you mean by that actually?

I mean to say that what had been a kind of a Christian consensus in certainly here is

broken.

There is not a Christian consensus on the meaning of manhood and womanhood anymore.

Okay.

I'm not sure there ever was one to tell you the truth.

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