Jennifer Zickel Fighting For The Rights Of Altar-Girls
Jennifer Zickel Fighting For The Rights Of Altar-Girls OUTH RIDING, Va. (WUSA) - - Jennifer Zickel never expected to be at the forefront of this fight but she believes it is now "God's calling." The …More
Jennifer Zickel Fighting For The Rights Of Altar-Girls
OUTH RIDING, Va. (WUSA) - - Jennifer Zickel never expected to be at the forefront of this fight but she believes it is now "God's calling."
The northern Virginia mom is lobbying the Arlington Diocese to reconsider allowing priests to change a policy the Vatican instituted in 1994. Back then, the Pope allowed girls to serve on the altar correcting what he called "a profound inequality."
Yet, the Arlington Diocese only started permitting girls into altar service in 2006 and allowed individual priests to make that decision.
Now, only 40% of the parishes in the diocese allow girls to serve.
Corpus Christi in South Riding was one of them until last fall. That's when the new pastor announced in the bulletin that boys alone will be trained.
"I had to leave mass. I had tears in my eyes because I knew what that meant for my family," said Jennifer Zickel mother of 2 young girls.
The Zickel family is one of about a dozen families who left the …More
OUTH RIDING, Va. (WUSA) - - Jennifer Zickel never expected to be at the forefront of this fight but she believes it is now "God's calling."
The northern Virginia mom is lobbying the Arlington Diocese to reconsider allowing priests to change a policy the Vatican instituted in 1994. Back then, the Pope allowed girls to serve on the altar correcting what he called "a profound inequality."
Yet, the Arlington Diocese only started permitting girls into altar service in 2006 and allowed individual priests to make that decision.
Now, only 40% of the parishes in the diocese allow girls to serve.
Corpus Christi in South Riding was one of them until last fall. That's when the new pastor announced in the bulletin that boys alone will be trained.
"I had to leave mass. I had tears in my eyes because I knew what that meant for my family," said Jennifer Zickel mother of 2 young girls.
The Zickel family is one of about a dozen families who left the …More
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This woman got it wrong;
she might have been spiritually abused;
not Blessed John Paul but perhaps Fr. Liar said that in her church.
she might have been spiritually abused;
not Blessed John Paul but perhaps Fr. Liar said that in her church.