Edit: earlier last year, the Holy Father was talking about ordaining women to the office of Reader. Cardinal George, last week, was apparently encouraging a woman that he would discuss the office of Deacon for women when he went to Rome.
This week, the Holy Father addresses a co-ed group of altar servers and disturbingly says, addressing both the boys and the girls present:
“And, if one day you feel called to follow the path to the priesthood or religious life, respond generously,”
Fact: Diocese, parishes, Catholic religious societies, which don't have women serving on the altar during Mass are not in demographic free fall. There is no vocations crisis there.
As the Church continues to make concessions to the irrationality of the zeitgeist, She will continue to falter and be the willing victim of the media and their political masters. Wherever the Church resists these forces, like feminism, Marxism, and so forth, She is strong.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) -- Marking the feast of the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, Pope Benedict XVI said Christians must not bow to the pressure of the powerful who demand a denial of Christ or of the truth he taught.
"The truth is the truth and there is no compromise," the pope said at his weekly general audience Aug. 29, the day the church remembers St. John the Baptist's beheading.
An estimated 2,500 people gathered in the town square just outside the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo for the main part of the pope's audience.
Link to CNS...
H/t:: The oblivious Deacon's Bench...
