Since the permission was given in 94, I don’t see too many altar boys anymore. It’s mostly altar girls. The more conservative parishes are an exception on the weekends, but it’s still seems no better than a 50-50 boy-girl split. Of course, the very few Latin Masses permitted in the archdiocese don’t have altar girls or altar women.
Girls drive boys off the alar. That’s a problem
Why can’t they just stay out of boys only? They don’t like it when boys join their athletic events.
If women would go to mass, their husbands and their sons would go. In my Irish Catholic New Yorker extended family and friends the women don’t go to mass. Their families sure don’t go. Now even on Christmas.
I went to a funeral last month of a guy we grew up with - ten kids five girls five boys like everyone in the old neighborhood of formula fed baby boomers
All their spouses and kids sitting in the front few pews. No one with a clue when yo sit, stand, kneel
None of those Catholic women go to mass. None of their families go.
But they’ll talk about how women have to be priests. They’ll insist on the handshake of peace while the consecrated host is on the altar
Women have so much pride. Earthly pride. They ruin things pushing in where they don’t belong, where men need to be in order to be men, they despise masculinity then they insist on defying Church teaching demanding birth control and create a culture that caters to the perpetual 17 year old male selfish, devoid of faith then they drive people away from church.
But they’ll push for altar girls and female priests.
Only two altar boys in my parish, and the rest girls.
I wonder why my post #8 was removed. Yes, this is a caucus thread and I discussed what happened in my former church (Episcopal) when women were allowed to become priests, but I am now a Catholic, and have been so for 16 years now. I was hardly in favor of women priests, either.
I first joined FR in the spring of 2000 and this is the first time I’ve had a post removed. (I lost my password after changing email addresses in a computer disaster awhile back, so returned under a new moniker.)