“Which is why we have altar girls, communion in the paw, a defective liturgy, confession once a week if you’re lucky, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera”.
None of the above is doctrine. It is practices put in place by local priests............and lazy bishops not calling them out on it.
” It is practices put in place by local priests............and lazy bishops not calling them out on it.”
It is just exactly what you said doesn’t happen.
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Once again you are mistaken. It was Pope St. John Paul II who introduced the novelty of altar chickettes" in 1994.
From the point of view of liturgical law, an official interpretation of Canon 230, Paragraph 2, of the Code of Canon law on the possibility of delegating certain liturgical offices led to a 1994 letter from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments clarifying that girls may serve at the altar.
Despite the following:
Inaestimabile donum 18: "There are, of course, various roles that women can perform in the liturgical assembly: these include reading the Word of God and proclaiming the intentions of the Prayer of the Faithful. Women are not, however, permitted to act as altar servers".
Liturgicae Instaurationes 7. In conformity with norms traditional in the Church, women (single, married, religious), whether in churches, homes, convents, schools, or institutions for women, are barred from serving the priest at the altar".
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