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.
I was an Alter Boy, but the problem with today's Catholic Churches is, they are empty.
During my youth and while my kids were growing up, missing Mass on Sunday was not optional, but today, there are fewer Masses in fewer Churches and more empty seats.
Why is anyone arguing about Alter Girls, be grateful that girls want to go to Mass.
I see no religious reason that a girl can not be a server at Mass.
I do see tradition but if the Church is empty, what tradition is being upheld?
I wonder what Jesus Christ would say?