From the moment he arrived in Arlington, people "in the know" have whispered that he was going to allow female altar servers (Arlington being one of only two dioceses in the U.S. that forbade them). Last week he finally did; at the same time, he also permitted the Latin-rite ("Tridentine") mass at two parishes. But no one seems to be noticing this latter fact, even though surely it's of as much interest. Don Jim at Dappled Things has the most reasonable response I've seen --including a good explanation of why the altar girls don't trouble him much, even though he's something of a Traditionalist.
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