The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) Day 52: Male and Female (2026)
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Feb 21, 2026 A lively walk through what it means to be male and female in divine design. Short reflections on human unity as body and soul and how equality and complementarity coexist. A look at being whole persons who are made for communion and mutual help. Discussion of biological signs of complementarity and our shared duty to steward creation.
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Equality And Complementarity
- Men and women are equal in dignity yet genuinely different and complementary according to the Catechism.
- This paradox is not a contradiction but a revealing dimension of human identity.
Christianity And Women's Suffrage
- Fr. Mike links Christian teaching to historical advances like women's suffrage in asserting equal dignity.
- He credits Christianity with shaping cultural recognition of male-female equality.
Willed Wholeness, Called To Communion
- Being male or female is willed by God and good in itself, not a flaw or deficit to be fixed.
- Each person is whole while also called to a communion where masculine and feminine complement one another.