[Ann Archy]

Girls should NOT be altar servers for the very reason you stated.

[CdMGuy]

That is exactly my position. I was an altar boy for 7 years. It was, and still is, a key source of vocations. At a time when we are going begging for vocations, why would the church cut off one of the key sources? In our parish, over half the altar servers are now girls. Hope springs eternal - perhaps we will be lucky and a goodly percentage of them will join the convent.