re: #90 Political Atheist
Of course, reform would ordinarily come by inches in a large organization like that with entrenched views. Like the US itself. Some reforms long pre date the rest.
Change is also not uniform throughout such a large organization. Daughter Two was an ‘altar girl’ when we lived in Italy. When she came back to the ‘progressive’ US, she was not allowed.
(She did get to ask the Archbishop of Mobile “Why?”)