A Catholic scholar warns that feminist ideology is a religion destroying women for generations to come.
“Feminism has created a Shadow Church,” author Carrie Gress stated at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., last week. She said the movement functions as a sinister moral system intent on replacing Christianity, as it offers its own authority, rituals, and theological principles in direct opposition to Christianity and its influence on Western society. She contends that this framework explains why debates over gender roles, abortion, and transgenderism continue to intensify after decades of feminist influence over our culture.
That argument forms the backbone of Gress’ latest book, Something Wicked, which frames feminism as a “Shadow Church.” Rather than operating merely as a political movement, Gress argued, feminism mirrors the structure of Catholicism by meeting women’s emotional, spiritual, and practical needs on a daily basis. “That’s one of the reasons it’s so hard for women to leave feminism,” Gress said.
Gress has long argued that feminism is incompatible with Christianity, a position she has developed across several books examining the movement’s roots. In earlier works, she traced feminism from its origins through contemporary gender ideology, rejecting the idea that the movement only imploded in later waves and concluding that feminism’s emphasis on power and autonomy stands in direct opposition to Christian principles of humility, charity, mercy, and surrender.
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