Bishops Respond Favorably to Feminist Group Ahead of Papal Visit
According to LeParisien.fr (September 2), the CEF confirmed to the association that women and girls will serve at the altar alongside men and boys during the papal Eucharists.
The confirmation follows an open letter (below) from Magdala to Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, president of the French Bishops’ Conference. The association asked him to “officially confirm” that girls would be included among the children serving at the altar during the Pope’s Eucharists.
Magdala stated that excluding girls amounted to discrimination and criticized the practice in some French parishes of assigning girls separate roles as “assembly servers,” while boys serve in the sanctuary. It described one such distinction as “symbolic violence.”
Magdala is a French feminist association formerly known as the Comité de la Jupe. It campaigns for women’s ordination, contraception, abortion and greater homosexual inclusion.
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