Posted on 01/13/2007 10:09:52 AM PST by Dennis Paul Morony
For all it's been going on for years now, not everyone agrees with me that using girls (and young women) as altar servers might be worth keeping in the future.
This is called "opinion", not evidence. In a court, it would qualify as "hearsay". I don't care what you guys have "heard". Unless and until there is some actual EVIDENCE presented (like a study by some organization with the wherewithal to gather actual FACTS), I'll take it as "unproven".
Oh, please, what's your "evidence" in the other direction? Where's your study? Or is your opinion better just because it's yours?
This woman has worked at churches and seen the fact that when the girls take over, the boys leave.
Should the American Catholic Church Continue with Altar Girls, Yea or Nay?
Of course!
I am a former Catholic.
A few years ago my local church had its annual outdoor nativity pagent. The boys of the church were out bid by the girls of the church to become Wise Men. All the mothers tittered and the boys were relegated to carrying stuff. A couple of other boys were suckered into the main roles, Joseph and the innkeeper. Otherwise an all girl cast.
This continued for a couple of years.
Every year I hear that boys leave this church by 6th grade.
Of course they do, there is no role for them.
The women of the church drive them out.
The "why things will never get better" attitude strikes. Our Holy Fathers in the past were not "charitable" as you call it with the enemies of faith, and that is exactly what girl altar boy supporters are. Nor did they dilly-dally and wait for people to come about to their point of view. If the Church has a spot or blemish, you should immediately cleanse it if it is in your power.
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