snakes, have turned their energies to contraceptives.
And in fact it soon becomes plain that Archbishop Murphy is no different from his colleagures; just a little more subtle. His real problem is this: "There was a short period when Catholic theologians. were playing down the role of the mother of God....during that same period we had an added criticism of the Holy Father [i.e. the Pope] and the Church.' Slavery We have pointed out many times that the family and the moral values it enshrines are simply a framework for the domestic slavery of women. Christmas makes that all too apparent. It is time for children to make themselves sick, for men to drink and burp their way through the Queen's speeen and nonday football - but for women it is a time to cook twice as much as usual, make twice as many beds as usual, and mop up tive times as much notion that women's function is simply stockbreeding. On this notion depend a whole range of ourer aratudes rearing cage, everything is in its There is no questioning of the Holy Father -fies not only the Pope, but also depend on the mystical notion of the mother.
knows it.
'women's lib'.
the form this imposition takes With women locked in the childplace and authority remains intact.
- a term which signisweat shop employers, social security spies, and all our petty domestic tyrants. They all assume the mystical power of the father, and all Once women are seen as human beings, the spell is broken - and Archbishop Murhpy In his article the Archbishop devotes a good deal of space to an attack on the 'Dickensian Christmas'. There is a reason for this, and it is closely allied to his gushings about So long as a ruling class needs an ever renewed supply of labour, and the training of the young in docility and acceptance, then we will have the family. But
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