This is a topic of another article I am banging out. The revelation came to me as I was kneeling waiting to go to communion. I looked up at the altar and it was completely covered in women. There was a priest, and all females-the altar servers, eucharistic ministers, the organist and lector, every one of them was female.
I felt God speak to my heart letting me know that women have no visible role models in the church because it removed “His nuns”. When I grew up, there was a convent at my church. The nuns taught CCD, did the altar linens, made the altar bread, cleaned the church etc. I have not seen a nun in a church for all of the 10 years I have been a revert(unless it was a special occasion- just this 9/11 we had ONE in habit at a memorial mass. First one in 10 years), and it is disheartening. Young ladies today have no role models but male ones in the church. Is it any wonder they want to be altar servers and then priests? They don’t see the options out there, every day, watching women who devoted their lives to God. Thanks for the ping. I hope your nuns will be visible in the parishes! The young girls need to see them!!
Marriages may end up half ending in divorce, including Catholics. But you do not go further. You should ask, “Who initiates most of these divorces?” The answer is the female.
A more interesting question is who initiates abortions, the slaughter of unborn? It isn’t the men. Men have no legal rights concerning unborn children. It is all done through women.
I am not pointing a finger of blame at women but on the fact that absolute power corrupts absolutely. All the legal power of marriage is in woman’s hands. People in America are not married to one another, they are married to the State. All a woman has to do is sign some papers and the man becomes a slave to the government. And it is done all the time.
Yet, people like you did not *see* this or even want to see it. No one wants to take up the cross of enslaved men, or the millions of men put in jail based on bogus rape charges or child support statements. For some reason, abortion is blamed on the “culture” or on the “society”, yet one gender, men, have absolutely no power, no say, and really nothing to do with it. Yet, this gets *ignored as well*.
By failing to fight the injustice for these men, we are getting the injustice of socialism rained on us. We can’t fight for freedom in general unless we fight for it in specific.
I, myself, have never been divorced because I was too smart not to marry. Only an idiot man would do so in today’s legal climate. The Church hasn’t helped at all. The “Theology of the Body” nonsense is nothing more than trying to convince the man that the way how Nature made his body is wrong and he must submit to the wife’s will.
The Church used to be filled with manly men. They were necessary to drive back the invading Muslims. Today, the Church is filled with a bunch of pansies. If the Crusades happened today, the Church would just deliver a fruit basket.
Your story of women everywhere in the Church is the reason why I left. The Church is becoming feminized.
There is no reason for a man to be in the Church today. Men are, by law, put on a lesser plane than woman. But in the Church, it is to make the masculine be guilty. However, the “nurturing” and “caring” women get accolades. Being a “man” is no longer welcomed in the Church.
We should keep in mind that Jesus didn’t just tend the sick and hungry, he also whipped those blasphemed his temple. Can you imagine today’s priest whipping merchants like Jesus did? They would just get on their hands and knees to beg while the merchants would just walk on them.
Womb to Tomb, please stop hating men. And know that by driving men from the Church, you not only diminish the Church but liberty as well. John Locke pinned the Rights of Man based on Matrimony, so when Matrimony crumbles so do our rights.