[nickcarraway]

They don't have enough priests and they are working very hard to alienate their largest group of active members, women.

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?

[Lorianne]

No but I've heard priests and Catholic school teachers complain about the lack of males in church, and the lack of men active in their children's religious education. It is largely women who are responsible for bringing up the next generation of in the Church, or not.

It would seem logical to me that the church would want more men to participate (and more European origin people), but at the same time, alienating the groups who are currently the most active in the Church (women and non-European descent peoples) doesn't appear to me to be a good game plan.