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Article: Women answer statement on gathering.(opposing Philippine Catholic Bishop's criticism of feminism and the U.N. World Conference on Women)(Brief Article)
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- August 11, 1995
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A group of theologians and students in the Philippines has written a statement supporting the goals of the Fourth U.N. International Conference on Women in response to a recent pastoral letter on the U.N. event by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines.
The pastoral letter, titled "I Will Make a Suitable Companion for Him," was released July 11. "By harnessing the positive differences in men and women, the society can best achieve its goal of promoting dignity, development and justice," it said. "Unfortunately, the Western ideology of feminism fails to recognize this and fights for the exaggerated individualism of the woman."
"(The U.N. ...