Father Greeley is “one of America’s most beloved storytellers,” according to his website and “One of the most influential Catholic thinkers and writers of our time,” according to his publisher.  This concerns me.  Why?  Because Father Greeley is promoting his new book Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships With Women by calling Jesus a radical feminist. 

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Father Greeley Interview
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The way I see it, either the Father is being controversial to sell more books, or he has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. 

He’s a man of God; he’s not supposed to hurt people to sell books, is he?  So he must not know that radical feminists are misandrists.   I know he wasn’t there when they lied about fathers to my legislators in 2005, defeating California’s shared parenting bill.

I do have to wonder, though, how a ”priest, sociologist, author and journalist” who’s “built an international assemblage of devout fans over a career that spans five decades” could be so naiive, so ignorant. 

I’ll be contacting the Father to ask for clarity on his position.   Maybe you should too.  Perhaps a public apology to all fathers is in order.

After seeing this, I could lose even more faith in organized religion.  But I’m reminded of this inspirational, progressive and enlightened message from Archbishop Celestino Migliore on March 8, 2007:

“The ideas on the equality of rights between men and women have been marked by an antagonistic approach which exalts opposition between them. This approach juxtaposes woman against man and vice versa, while the identity and role of one is emphasized with the aim of merely diminishing that of the other. Success in the quest for equality and the empowerment of women can best be achieved when such antagonism gives way to mutual respect and recognition of the identity and the role of one towards the other.”