Title: The Catholic Church & Women's Suffrage | Synonym
Headings: The Catholic Church & Women's Suffrage
The Catholic Church & Women's Suffrage
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1 St. Augustine
2 Objection To Women's Suffrage
3 Acceptance and Political Mobiization
4 Swing Vote
5 The Vatican Excepted

Content: Citing Eve's guilt for the fall of humanity into sin, he justified her double subordination, both to God and man. With this he further argued that only men could represent rationality and spirituality; women, in contrast, represented the body and the material world. 2 Objection To Women's Suffrage
Views about women began to change in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as they struggled for the right to vote, to obtain education and to work outside of the home. Yet the Catholic Church remained steadfast. In 1930, ten years after women won the right to vote in the U.S., Pope Pius XI condemned women’s liberation, arguing it would produce a false redirection from their true identity as mothers and homemakers. It would not be until 1945 that Italy, home of the Vatican, granted women the right to vote . 3 Acceptance and Political Mobiization
Yet after 1920, the U.S. Catholic Church began to organize Catholic women for the Church’s own objectives, mobilizing groups such as the National Council of Catholic Women against liberalism, socialism and feminism. Catholic women’s groups have also lobbied against birth control, divorce and the Equal Rights Amendment, ironically fighting against some rights which women suffragists have sought to earn. 4 Swing Vote
Today however, the Church’s sway over Catholic women voters is in question.