Speak for yourself...I see this as a good thing. Women have plenty of other ways to serve.
Men and women both have roles within the Church - and in society, for that matter. They're different. That's not a bad thing.
Any woman who is "alienated" by an all-male acolytate is equally alienated by an all-male priesthood.
If certain women believe that Church is meant as an exercise in affirmative action identity politics, then they were never Catholics in the first place.
No woman in my family is fooled by leftist self-worship masquerading as Catholic worship.
because the radical feminazi lesbians who have infiltrated the diocesan bureaucracies don't want new priests ... unless those priests happen to be radical feminazi lesbians. (See Church of England for details on how that works out.)
and they are working very hard to
reestablish fidelity to the Faith handed down to us from the Apostles. In those areas where the Church is most Traditional and orthodox, it has no trouble recruiting young, holy, orthodox men to be priests.
I guess it only looks suicidal to the abyssmally ignorant.
For what it's worth, I have only heard women complain about altar girls. I only know women who have switched churches for this reason. Do you know the reasons why they may have certain functions for women and certain functions for men?
Do you likewise believe that Judaism is a suicidal religion, because there are certain areas/functions restricted to men for the express reason that they believe women are more inherently spiritual, so their is a necessity to enrich the men?
I have some questions for you in this event:
Since you have identified that Catholicism has a problem attracting men, should they decide to abandon men and focus on women? Would that strategy benefit women or be detrimental to women?
Not just in Catholicism, but other Christian denominations their is often the problem that women are the largest group of active members? Has this benefited these women? Have you ever known women who complain about this very fact?
You have identified that women are the largest groupof active members among Catholics. Yet until recently, there were no altar girls. If altar girls were a deciding factor in alienating women, then why have women been the largest group of active members throughout the Church history?
No, they are working very hard to get us, as a church, back to where we should be. I for one, have never liked the idea of altar girls. And, yes, I am a woman. There are many, many other opportunities in our church for women to serve.
There are plenty of churches out there which govern themselves by majority vote and whose guiding principle is willing surrender to the zeitgeist instead of obedience to the Gospel.
I'm sure the Episcopalians, for instance, would welcome those alienated women, whose real religion is feminism, not Christianity, with open arms. Heaven knows the rest of their membership is evaporating into thin air.
There are over 400,000 Catholic preists in the world, my dear. More than enough. Once the Vatican restores traditions and conservatism, rids the Church of feminism and queers, (which it is now trying to do), men will return to the priesthood in droves. Though women are "active", as you say, they are "active" in subverting the Church's traditions more than helping it in any way.