One thing that stuck out to me when I was talking to my mom about it was that people used to not have a choice about what parish they were in. Parishes were geographical, usually following neighborhood lines? and if you didn't like your parish priest and thought the one at the next church over was better, you were out of luck.
(As other people have pointed out, girls as altar servers is still hugely contentious. The first time the new bishop visited our parish, all five servers were girls - I was one of them, this was some years ago - and he was not happy about it.)
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Date: 2012-05-20 02:30 am (UTC)One thing that stuck out to me when I was talking to my mom about it was that people used to not have a choice about what parish they were in. Parishes were geographical, usually following neighborhood lines? and if you didn't like your parish priest and thought the one at the next church over was better, you were out of luck.
(As other people have pointed out, girls as altar servers is still hugely contentious. The first time the new bishop visited our parish, all five servers were girls - I was one of them, this was some years ago - and he was not happy about it.)