Dear Penni, how on earth did you wind up with the grub? I logged on briefly and had to log back off as we were going out, and between then and now CharleyMike lost it and you got it.
I hate to admit I didn't go to Confirmation. I went to the special religious training, but before the ceremony I got mad at the church for its position on women, in specific the refusal (at the time) to allow girls to assist at mass (altar girls). I decided if they didn't want me, I didn't want them. Most churches still don't allow altar girls, decades later, but some do. During those same decades, the Jews and the Protestants have allowed women to be ordained as rabbis and ministers, respectively, but that's never going to happen in the Catholic church, unless the doctrine of papal infallibility is renounced.
The priest who buried Kerrie, my father's wife, used to have altar girls, until his bishop banned it. |
