[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.

[nickcarraway]

I still don't understand why this alienates women.

Women have suffered from the lack of men devoted to the Church, because the end up ``unequally yoked,'' or with some similar problem.

[nickcarraway]

Is the reason women are more active in the Church because the Church is ``alienating'' men, or is their a reason that women, by nature, are more likely to be active in the Church[or religion in general?] then men, especially during youth?

[nickcarraway]

Is the reason women are more active in the Church because the Church is ``alienating'' men, or is their a reason that women, by nature, are more likely to be active in the Church[or religion in general?] then men, especially during youth?

[nickcarraway]

ping

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Pan_Yans Wife]

and the lack of men active in their children's religious education.

This is no different than teachers in the schools of America... most are women. Could it be that women are drawn more to teaching, than men are?