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The 16th Annual Symposium on Saint Thomas Aquinas. January 31, 2013. Lisa Sowle Cahill presents "Aquinas and Natural Law: Resources for Women's Equality" About the talk: Despite rumors to the contrary, the need for a robusteven a "radical"Catholic feminism did not disappear with the '60's. Can Aquinas be a help in this regard? His statements about the female sex are unquestionably ambivalent. But his ethics of the "natural law" offers Catholic feminists today a solid basis on which to seek women's equality and to combat global problems such as women's poverty, rape as a war crime, domestic abuse, and human trafficking.