If the church is 'feminized,' most men want out

[TexasTowelie]

By TERRY MATTINGLY

It was conventional wisdom, in the Middle Ages, that women were more pious than men, and that women went to Confession and took Communion during great church feasts “while few men do,” as a Dominican priest observed.

Austrian theologian Johann B. Hafen saw this trend in 1843: “During the year who surrounds most frequently and willingly the confessional? The wives and maidens! Who kneels most devoutly before our altars? Again, the female sex!”

Early YMCA leaders found that one out of 20 young men claimed church membership and that 75 percent of men “never attend church” at all. A Church News study in 1902 found that, in Manhattan, the ratio of Catholic women to men was 3 to 1.

A look at today

What about today? To see what is happening in Catholic sanctuaries, worshippers just have to look around.

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1. The trouble with this guy is he sees feminism as something weak.

Religions need a hell of a lot more feminization but not this archaic, inaccurate view of femininity.