Or maybe not. As a Catholic parent, just as with any parent, I agree with age-inappropriate content being given to kids. Stupid. Let the kids be kids. Now, maybe they should warn all of them to never be left alone with a priest, but that warning should already be instructions from each parent. Definitely one I covered with my boys.
Now, girls as alter servers and all, that is an interesting question since the church will not let them have real roles, such as the priesthood, and nuns are pretty much a thing of the past. The church has a real problem and challenge with its patriarchal nature. Does it evolve or continue to be increasingly out-of-step with society? Can it survive without change? Can society be one thing in church and another everywhere else?
If the Church changes doctrines to conform to the spirit of the age, she will not survive.
I pray to God it returns to being counter cultural to the core.
That “patriarchal nature” business you would have to take that up with the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is quite awkward to get the picture of God creating Man first, and secondarily the Woman simply as his helpmate, from our perch in a now feminized culture with women running the churches and their husbands, and their careers, but who can not park their butt at home anymore to raise decent children with faith, do their own housekeeping and feed the damn dog. It simply isn’t done.
Look around at the wreckage, much of it caused by loss of motherhood, replaced with too much cleavage and short hem lines.
Culture does not trump God, his Church or the Commandments unless we are on the road, willingly, to Hell. And, we are.
Clericalism on stilts.
Nuns may or may not be a thing of the past. There are orders that are growing really fast— young ladies wearing habits and teaching school with a sweet smile on their faces. I don’t think the old hippy sisters like this that much, but it’s a trend.
Priesthood is a service vocation. If women aren’t called to it, maybe it’s because we don’t need the same kind of lesson in humility and self-sacrifice that men need. Perhaps Jesus thought that men need to do their own dishes on the altar, in front of God and everybody.