Female Altar Servers

[Cristiano]

…I do have a problem with the idea that women, and the entire laity by extension, are second-class Christians, who are not priests because they are somehow less fit to serve God…

I think that you have spent some of your time reading “Lumen Gentium”

 

[EasterJoy]

I think that you have spent some of your time reading “Lumen Gentium”

This would be a bad thing?

It is like with preaching. There is all this rancor because the laity “aren’t allowed to preach”, and therefore, that women aren’t allowed to preach, when the truth is that the laity aren’t allowed to give homilies. For some reason, there is this impression that homilies are the only preaching that is supposed to be going on in the Church! If that is the only preaching that is going on in the Church, if only priests and religious “have vocations”, we may as well close up shop. We’re not going to convert anybody to hand themselves entirely over to Christ, not even the laity we succeed in getting baptized.