RE: Damned Catholics
July 9, 2011 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2011 at 1:39 pm by BethK.)
(July 9, 2011 at 12:36 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Catherine, altar girl.....apparently you're not the right shade of lipstick.
As early as about 1980, when I was briefly involved with the Catholic Church, some liberal priests were allowing girls/women to serve at mass. It was grounds for excommunication to do that - both for the priest who allowed or requested it and for the girl or woman doing the serving.
Technically, an "alter boy", or "acolyte" in the Roman Catholic Church has the lowest-form of Holy Orders - a sacrament that includes deacons and priests. And, we know how wrong it would be to have women priests!
I had this explained to me very vocally by a "conservative Catholic" after such a "liberal priest" called on me once to serve at Mass. The conservative was right - and she did have plenty of references with "imprinteur"s to back up her assertion that it was "wrong" and that it warranted excommunication. Just one of many things that led me to giving up Catholicism for Lent of 1983.
--- Another former Alter girl