Ripperger silenced for his views on marriage and women, allegedly

According to LifeSiteNews and Timothy Gordon, notable Catholic priest and exorcist Fr Chad Ripperger was silenced for his views on marriage and feminism:

On Monday, LifeSiteNews reported that [Denver Archbishop James] Golka had asked Ripperger, a well-known exorcist and Thomist, to undertake a one-year “fast” from public speaking, interviews, preaching, and writing.

Timothy Gordon, the Catholic author, podcaster, and co-producer of the documentary What a Woman Is, publicly asserted that the primary reason Denver Archbishop James Golka restricted Father Chad Ripperger's public ministry was the priest’s teachings on feminism, patriarchy, and Christian marriage.

Gordon made the claim in multiple posts on X in the days after news of the restriction, including a video statement in which he said he possessed “moral certainty” about the cause.

“The actual reason is, I can tell you, with moral certainty … the fact that Fr. Ripperger has, among other things … joined with me and we were doing a lot of great work on feminism, patriarchy, (and the) proper view of Christian marriage. This is the most threatening thing that he’s done lately,” the podcaster asserted.

Gordon added that he and Ripperger had been tracking complaints from women contacting the bishop about the film “as of 11 months ago,” and that “I know with moral certitude that it was Father Ripperger’s teachings in the Candace Owens film that got him in trouble. I can guarantee you that movie made a lot of dames mad.” He described the film’s content as “a prominent part of it. The main part of it.”

What a Woman Is, released last December on Candace Owens’ website, features extensive interviews with Ripperger, including his tracing feminism’s roots to the Fall, stating: "When Satan presented to her (Eve) … ‘You’ll be like the gods,’ etc., there were two things that he was essentially presenting to her. One is self-sufficiency: She can save herself or obtain this thing on her own. That gave women a desire to have self-sufficiency independently of Adam. The second part of it is that it also then engendered in her a desire to control her destiny and her outcome in her own life, independent again of Adam."

The film argues that feminism constitutes “functional or behavioral gender dysphoria,” advocates a return to traditional roles in which the husband is primary provider and the wife focuses on the home and children (with rare exceptions for necessity), and cites the Catechism of the Council of Trent on wifely obedience.

Gordon has described the documentary as a sequel of sorts to Matt Walsh’s What Is a Woman? and has said its central claim is that feminism is “the biggest problem in Christendom, in culture, and in politics.”

Full article available at LifeSiteNews.