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Related: About this forumS.F. Catholic Church priest bans girls as altar servers
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Catholic-Church-priest-bans-girls-as-altar-6041400.phpBy Jill Tucker Updated 9:49 pm, Monday, January 26, 2015
A Catholic priest, new to San Francisco and no stranger to controversy, has banned girls from acting as altar servers at Mass, a decision that sets his parish apart from all others in the archdiocese.
The Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor at Star of the Sea Church since August, said he believes there is an intrinsic connection between the priesthood and serving at the altar and because women cant be priests, it makes sense to have only altar boys.
Maybe the most important thing is that it prepares boys to consider the priesthood, he said.
The Richmond District parish is now the only one in the Archdiocese of San Francisco that will exclude girls from serving at the altar. Such a decision is a pastors call, said archdiocese spokesman Chris Lyford.
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S.F. Catholic Church priest bans girls as altar servers (Original Post)
cbayer
Jan 2015
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Joining Cardinal Burke in the emangelization movement - boys must be protected from girls
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2015
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Also, girls are icky and have cooties
You don't want any girl germs on you.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Especially not on your sacraments and stuff. Yuck!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)3. Joining Cardinal Burke in the emangelization movement - boys must be protected from girls
Cardinal Burke is right. Women are terrifying.
Women are scary. Women are terrifying. They come into churches and bring cooties with them, and there is no ritual for casting out cooties. Demons, yes. Cooties, no. They come into boardrooms and take seats. They serve the altar and they are good at it.
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His words on the Catholic Churchs man crisis have been attracting attention lately, from mens rights advocates as well as others, and I think its worth pointing out exactly what is wrong about them. (Other than the fact that they came under the heading of a movement called Emangelization. If you are trying to use bad puns to keep women down, your movement is already off to a lousy start.)
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The girls were also very good at altar service. So many boys drifted away over time. I want to emphasize that the practice of having exclusively boys as altar servers has nothing to do with inequality of women in the Church.
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I think that this has contributed to a loss of priestly vocations. It requires a certain manly discipline to serve as an altar boy in service at the side of priest, and most priests have their first deep experiences of the liturgy as altar boys. If we are not training young men as altar boys, giving them an experience of serving God in the liturgy, we should not be surprised that vocations have fallen dramatically.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/01/13/cardinal-burke-is-right-women-are-terrifying/
Women are scary. Women are terrifying. They come into churches and bring cooties with them, and there is no ritual for casting out cooties. Demons, yes. Cooties, no. They come into boardrooms and take seats. They serve the altar and they are good at it.
...
His words on the Catholic Churchs man crisis have been attracting attention lately, from mens rights advocates as well as others, and I think its worth pointing out exactly what is wrong about them. (Other than the fact that they came under the heading of a movement called Emangelization. If you are trying to use bad puns to keep women down, your movement is already off to a lousy start.)
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The girls were also very good at altar service. So many boys drifted away over time. I want to emphasize that the practice of having exclusively boys as altar servers has nothing to do with inequality of women in the Church.
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I think that this has contributed to a loss of priestly vocations. It requires a certain manly discipline to serve as an altar boy in service at the side of priest, and most priests have their first deep experiences of the liturgy as altar boys. If we are not training young men as altar boys, giving them an experience of serving God in the liturgy, we should not be surprised that vocations have fallen dramatically.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/01/13/cardinal-burke-is-right-women-are-terrifying/
cbayer
(146,218 posts)5. Emangelization! This article is well worth the read.
I had hoped that kicking Burke to the curb would send a message, but apparently not.
rug
(82,333 posts)4. Here''s some more info.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)6. Thanks for that. The future of the church is at stake!
rug
(82,333 posts)7. Lol, it's been at stake since they took him down from the cross.