The crisis in Catholicism apparently has one source: women. According to Cardinal Raymond Burke, since the 1960’s women have “feminized” the church and discouraged “manly” men from participating in clerical life.
Burke, 66, the firebrand conservative who was recently demoted by Pope Francis to the ceremonial post as patron of the Order of Malta, pointed to the introduction of altar girls as an example.
Serving mass is a “manly” job argues the Irish American Cardinal, and so the participation of women and girls in the daily life of the church has had a chilling effect that has led to a drop in morale and priestly vocations.
"Young boys don't want to do things with girls. It's just natural," Burke, a Wisconsin native with Tipperary roots, told a group called The New Emangelization (a conservative organization that exists to put the “man” back in evangelization).
"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," he said.
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4 comments:
As any attorney will tell you..........
If you don't have a case.....blame the victim!!
Parents ....I wouldn't send my young male children into the den of child molesters that have been protected by the Catholic church.
Maybe the press is liars...maybe these priests really didn't molest all those children? What about the men who came forward that were molested as children and had their lives ruined.
7:37 No, they did and STILL DO. It is covered up, however. Even locally.
I wonder how many of the Church's pedophiles were once abused altar boys.
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