It’s crazy.

So much of the liturgical living Catholic lifestyle stuff is just influencer marketing. Being a tradwife is trendy. We are all better off if we view it in that light, not as some real window into someone else’s life or home.

Particularly demoralizing to note this when the Catholic Church doesn’t actually teach the sort of marital submission that is more prominent in evangelical Christianity.

I spent years in Catholic mom groups talking to women stuck in this thinking. So many of us have absorbed it.

Right, and the whole family worked! Meaning that women took in work they could do at home, and children were put to work at young ages. The emoji-laden post romanticizes teaching children skills via work when reality trapped illiterate kids in dangerous unskilled labor.

Yes, absolutely. It was a real marketing success to turn it into a moral ideal for the new middle class.

The single-earner household has largely been an historical aberration subsidized by economic policy, discriminatory laws, and/or social mores.

The default in human history is not the male breadwinner.

A “breadwinner wage” in the past has devalued women’s work—including work done inside the home.

Interesting. I thought we just had an inexperienced farmer and blamed the grass finishing.

I can imagine the taste of shoes in raw milk, given how grass fed and finished beef tastes like a pasture.

Ooh ooh because of a world authority “with teeth” in Caritas in Veritate? Or his favorable appraisal of Balthasar’s daring hope in universal salvation? Or some secret third reason?

Totally agree w/ him that it’s too narrow.