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Phoenix diocese cathedral won't allow girl altar servers

Both sides have valid arguments, though bringing Mary Magdalene into the argument is a bit of a red herring. None-the-less, the Church changes over centuries, not decades, as a rule, and the North American idea of equality hasn't necessarily taken root in other places, and we can't judge things by the American Catholic Church's standard, because it is a Catholic Church of it's own in some ways...

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