Lima, Peru, Mar 7, 2005 / 22:00 pm
In a statement released to mark the celebration of International Women’s Day, the Bishops Conference of Peru warned that the injustices suffered by women in past centuries are being repeated today with ideologies such as “gender feminism,” which leads to the destruction of the family through a distorted vision of reality.
In a message entitled, “Woman, Heart of the Family,” the bishops noted “the struggles for the vindication of women throughout history” but argued that “gender ideology denigrates women who are wives and mothers, because it holds that motherhood and marriage are two instruments of masculine domination.”
“This idea represents a profound intolerance that is just as condemnable as the idea that causes machismo in social life,” they warned.
The bishops underscored the need for recognition of the family as the basic cell of society and of the fundamental and irreplaceable role of women as wives and mothers, in order for there to be a more just and reconciled society.