[wideawake]

those of us who don't blindly agree with everything that comes out of the Vatican.

In other words, apostates.

Catholics obey the Holy See. Non-Catholics don't.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Even non-Catholics like myself can see that removing altar girls from the church, would be a good thing. :)

If the Catholic Church has a set of rules or traditions that make them uniquely Catholic, then why would anyone who doesn't believe with these rules want to remain in such a church? To change the rules, and go against everything that the Church deems holy or important, weakens the Church, and doesn't strengthen it. It will cease to be the Catholic Church, if obstructionists have their way. The Church must protect itself.