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While this is true, it is also true that banning them will not keep them Catholic.

If one is not orthodox, one is not Catholic.

And it will not encourage them to raise their children Catholic.

It is unlikely that a heretic would raise Catholics in the first place.

It's interesting that about 40% of "Catholic" women don't raise their children Catholic, while women like my mother who have a horror of such innovations as altar girls have raised devoutly Catholic families.

The Catholic Church is not now, nor has it ever been, about marketing.

It is about the truth.

While this is true, it is also true that banning them will not keep them Catholic. And it will not encourage them to raise their children Catholic.

How in the world do you reach that conclusion? Based on your commets, it appears you are not Catholic. I'm a Catholic woman raising my kids Catholic. Not serving as an alter girl did not run me off. Letting alter girls in would.

While this is true, it is also true that banning them will not keep them Catholic. And it will not encourage them to raise their children Catholic.

What good the progressive woman agenda brought to the Episcopalian Church? Priestesses, bishopesses and more.

It does not keep young women orthodox... While this is true, it is also true that banning them will not keep them Catholic. And it will not encourage them to raise their children Catholic.

I've been considering a return to the church after an absence of several decades. I was inspired to go in to talk to the priest after I saw altar girls serving Sunday mass.

In Cathoic grade school, all girls could do was lay out the vestments on Satuday for priest and altar boys. I remember how depressed I felt that I could not really take part in the service. After seeing girls serving mass, I thought, perhaps, that there is a place for me in this church after all. Guess not.

I'm certainly no radical feminist, just someone who wants to feel that she belongs. The policies of excluding females at every turn were the reason I left the church. Always an audience member, never a participant, condemned for no reason to irrelevance. Just like Muslim women who are relegated to back rooms off the main mosque floor during services. Bah humbug..

The Anglican church has a much more realistic attitude about women's "place."

"While this is true, it is also true that banning them will not keep them Catholic. And it will not encourage them to raise their children Catholic."

Altar girls never existed until the 1980's, it's a recent innovation. Banning girls from the altar never kept them from being Catholic before, why would it now?