Heavenly Pleasure Quotes
There is much debate about the actual truth of this widely believed story. There may have never been such a debate at the Council. Some scholars believe the “rumor” confused the council meeting with that of a local Synod in France in 585 AD which is described in The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours where such a debate did take place. However, although the Catholic Church by no means considered women equal to men, the female possession of a soul many argue was generally assumed by most clerics throughout history. They point to the fact that females had always been baptized and that there were early female Saints—concepts which would have been inconsistent with a general belief that women did not possess souls. De Beauvoir’s basic point however, is not dependent on the truth of the story, but can be made as a result of the fact that women had been raised sufficiently to possess souls, regardless of when and where in Church history.
