True! Women are far more active in the Church than men.
>>True! Women are far more active in the Church than men. <<
It depends on the parish. In ours we have over 200 Altar Boys, four priests, two deacons, a men’s club bursting at the seams and over 100 male only ushers.
If we make our parishes female centered, the men don’t show up. Get rid of the handholding and the female Altar servers (choir girls only) and you have all the men you need.
BTW, we had two priests ordained from our parish last year and seven seminarians currently.
This has probably been the case since 33AD. So? The problem is clericalism, Many nuns thinks of the hierarchy as a political structure and as bishops would act accordingly, like the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. The church has suffered greatly from priests who are misplaced politicians. We don’t need a new species of them.