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Catholic church in SF to phase out altar girls
The Associated Press ^ | Jan 28, 12:28 PM EST | Staff

Posted on 01/28/2015 10:42:11 AM PST by keat

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1 posted on 01/28/2015 10:42:11 AM PST by keat
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To: keat

Two words:

San Francisco.


2 posted on 01/28/2015 10:44:04 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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San Francisco

Which really makes it more remarkable.

3 posted on 01/28/2015 10:45:39 AM PST by keat
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What, that they prefer boys to girls? That doesn’t surprise me at all.


4 posted on 01/28/2015 10:46:42 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: keat

If it weren’t for girls we’d have almost no one to serve at Mass in our church.


5 posted on 01/28/2015 10:48:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Alter girls were dismissed because they were distracting the San Fransicko “Priests” during the Annual Running of the Alter Boys.


6 posted on 01/28/2015 10:55:00 AM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: WayneS

For close to 2,000 years, the altar staffing was 100% male. Our parish priest loves to say the Traditional Latin Mass and that requires only males on the altar.

Good move.


7 posted on 01/28/2015 10:56:43 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“If it weren’t for girls we’d have almost no one to serve at Mass in our church.”

In our parish in the northern suburbs of New York, three rites share the church: Ordinary Form, Maronite, and Traditional Latin (Extraordinary Form).

On Sundays on which a High Mass is celebrated (twice a month on average), we usually have 7-10 altar boys for the Latin rite (girls were never allowed in the traditional rite), more for Solemn High Masses.

I don’t think the Ordinary Form has as many boys available to serve Mass.

Perhaps making it a boys-only function will attract more boys to serving Mass.


8 posted on 01/28/2015 10:59:27 AM PST by paterfamilias
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To: keat

Not a good move after all the molestation scandals.


9 posted on 01/28/2015 11:01:18 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: paterfamilias

I hate to see “altar girls” - actually, untrained little brats who run around embarrassing their families into an early grave. I’ll never forget a Mass in which the priest had to reprimand the little wench.


10 posted on 01/28/2015 11:03:10 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: LibFreeUSA

I have a major problem with all things having to do with ‘God’s message of salvation’ being massaged by way of ‘gender’ filtering. Yes, and that includes all things having to do with God’s work here on earth.


11 posted on 01/28/2015 11:04:32 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: keat

For those of you who enjoy being ignorant about the Bible and Catholicism, this move is a good thing. Female control of, or even participation in, the leadership of the various churches is probably the biggest reason that so many churches are in apostasy.


12 posted on 01/28/2015 11:11:49 AM PST by fr_freak
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Here’s his blog which explains his reasoning for the change: http://www.frilloblog.com/


13 posted on 01/28/2015 11:11:53 AM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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he thinks the primary purpose of altar service is preparation for the priesthood

As a former altar boy, I did it to serve the Church. I had no intentions of becoming a priest. If I had thought it was in preparation for the priesthood, I probably wouldn't have been an altar boy.

I would guess that 99% of all altar boys (including my three sons) feel the same way.

When I was an altar boy (in the 70s), my church started having altar girls. I didn't think anything of it.

14 posted on 01/28/2015 11:12:41 AM PST by kidd
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There's anecdotal evidence that boys lose interest in being altar servers when girls, too, are allowed to be acolytes. When I was in Catholic school in the 70s, most of the boys in my class were altar boys and didn't seem to mind being such. Forty years later, the church affiliated with that grade school is about 80/20 altar girls to altar boys.
15 posted on 01/28/2015 11:14:35 AM PST by utahagen
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To: keat

Leave it to”SanFran Psycho”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 01/28/2015 11:15:49 AM PST by bandleader
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My husband was an altar boy. The priest was always hitting him on the head after the Mass for messing up the Latin responses. Great experience for young boys even if they don’t go on to be priests.


17 posted on 01/28/2015 11:19:04 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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18 posted on 01/28/2015 11:23:07 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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The girls might just get the idea that they can become priests...


19 posted on 01/28/2015 11:23:20 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: kidd

Exactly and precisely. There is nothing wrong at all with female participation in the Mass.

Further, there is absolutely nothing wrong with married clergy either for that matter. It is not prohibited in the Bible. To the contrary:

“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach.”

1 Timothy 3:2


20 posted on 01/28/2015 11:26:46 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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