Girls Serving at the Altar (& Acta Consiliorum response and Letter)

PODCAST: Audio version of 'Girls Serving at the Altar and the Vocations Blight' by Sister Mary Augustine OP. This was originally published in 'The Association for the Promotion of Religious Life (APREL) Bulletin', Issue 57, August 2002, Australia.
The issue of girls serving at the altar is a thorny question in the Church. This podcast goes through the reasons why they are a bad idea: culturally, theologically, and pastorally.
Few know what the Church really thinks and teaches about this; although She issued a document in the Acta Consiliorum of the Congregation for Divine Worship, 1992, permitting, but not promoting or encouraging female servers at the altar.
Addendum:
18:35 - The full text of the Acta Consiliorum 'Reply to the doubt proposed' by The Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts, July 1992, is provided. This audio is an unofficial translation of the initial Roman document of 1994 which seems difficult to obtain in English. The Conventual Sisters of St Dominic obtained this translation, and it was published in the same 2002 APREL Bulletin.
The responsum of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legal Texts of 11 July 1992 is published on the slides at 19:00 min, and the original Latin letter of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is published in AAS 86 (1994), pp. 541-542. www.vatican.va...