[sinkspur]

I really hope that somehow the Vatican finds the courage to put an absolute ban on girl altar boys into the forthcoming liturgical document. There can be no justification for it. Even in small parishes, it would be better to have no altar boys than to use girl altar boys.

You're going to be disappointed. And, to not have servers just to keep girls off the altar is rather silly.

Most seminarians, TODAY, are in their 20s and 30s and haven't served at the altar in years.

[B Knotts]

And, to not have servers just to keep girls off the altar is rather silly.

Why is it silly? In the new Mass, there is no necessity to have altar boys. In my old parish in California, we never had altar boys. It would be better to cease the transmission of false messages (that women could eventually be ordained), than to continue with this just in order to have someone around to hold the Lectionary.

Do you doubt that the motivation for the presence of girl altar boys is to confuse the doctrine of a male priesthood?

[american colleen]

That's because boys don't like to do the stuff girls do when they get to be a certain age (11 or so) so they don't bother.