As a faithful Catholic, I have been gagging on altar girls, lectresses and Eucharistic minstrels for years. Not to mention sappy music. Permission for all of these innovations was demanded of the Vatican virtually at gunpoint by American bishops, for reasons that escape me. Perhaps because many vocal bishops, without necessarily understanding what they're doing, hate and fear families headed by men.
Parishes that emphasize these feminized practices tend to be very lightly attended by teenage boys, I notice. If you lose the men, you lose the culture.
A Church is similar to a household in many respects. My first father-in-law was not a great man in the world's eyes, but he was a family man, a sober man, a leader of his household while remaining the servant of his family. All of the great men I've known personally in my 60 plus years have been just that kind of great. Such men build character in the children around them and make a shelter for flourishing of the women they love and cherish. When such men show with their actions of worship that they revere and fear their Creator, children learn the way that they should go.
The more you learn about who those bishops are (or were), the easier it is to understand.
This does not mean I approve of the "feminization" of our society. As I mentioned in a post in another thread, the matriarchy is responsible for the increase in teen pregnancy, fatherless gang members run amok and the welfare state. I am perfectly content to live in a patriarchy, but I don't see anything wrong with women reading from Scripture.
Bullseye.