General Discussion

By the time I was in high school, like the elementary school - all-girl Catholic. Sorry. You just start wondering. And doubting. And looking for other input, more objective input and facts. I, too, stopped going to Mass at about the age you did. For me, the most bothersome thing was how women were held to a subservient role - even as women became more - well - "liberated," as it was described back then. In Roman Catholicism, women were nothing but carriers, brood mares, and an endless supply of donations to support the missions, the Holy Childhood, the school raffles, GOOD GRIEF they shook us down on a DAILY basis!!! I STILL don't see that cavalier attitude toward women evolving into something that even remotely reflects the changing times, lo these many decades later.

I AM NOT a second-class citizen. And I NEVER HAVE BEEN a second-class citizen. And I NEVER WILL BE a second-class citizen.