Female Altar Servers are a Bigger Problem Than You Think

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The Catholic Church is the longest standing contiguous institution in all of human history. Which has to raise questions. How has it managed to do this? It must either be the most brilliantly organized institution in the world or there must be some other extremely powerful insight helping it along, keeping it alive, and preserving it from the kinds of adversities that have ended far more formidable societies and organizations of the past.

And in my limited exposure, but also from the lessons of history, what couldn’t be more obvious is that the Church cannot take credit for its longevity because it is a brilliantly governed organization or institution.

Hilaire Beloc once famously said, “A proof of the divine origins of the Catholic Church might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.”

In fact, when the Church prioritizes its institutional dimensions and seeks to govern itself like any other worldly institution, that’s exactly when its institutional prosperity seems to suffer the most. And this is dramatically apparent on the question of altar servers.


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