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Article: Rome conference offers `new' feminism.(Legionaries of Christ)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 1, 2001
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At a Legionaries of Christ conference in Rome designed to promote a "new feminism," the content of the new feminism seemed less clear than the diagnosis of what went wrong with the old.
A roster of high-profile speakers, including two princesses, a former Norwegian secretary of state, and a Polish psychiatrist who is among the pope's closest female friends, blamed feminism and the modern women's rights movement for a host of alleged ills:
* An insistence that sexual identity is a matter of choice rather than nature, leading, among other things, to demands for homosexual marriage and adoption rights for homosexuals;
* An abandonment of the idea ...