Of course.
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke decries the "feminization" of the Catholic Church, which apparently has spent so much time in the last fifty years coping with the troublesome womenfolk that they haven't had the time to deal with men and their needs. What the Church apparently needs, from Cardinal Burke's standpoint, is more manly-men priests and getting rid of altar girls (which "has nothing to do with inequality of women in the Church").
What the Pope apparently thinks it needs is shipping Cardinal Burke off to Malta.
American Cardinal Blames Women for “Feminizing” the Catholic Church
Last year, Pope Francis demoted American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke by removing him as head of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican’s high court) and giving him a perfunctory post at the Knights of Malta. This was a big deal because Burke is a fire-breathing reactionary who rose high under Pope Benedict, and his demotion…
LMAO It's because there are NO women in the church that men must fulfill this function in their absence. Ship him off to some remote uninhabited island in the south seas. Any woman worthy of being called a woman wouldn't want to be part of this organization in any way that detests females so much.
Ignoring the whole "get rid of icky girls" angle, how do you make the Roman Catholic Church more appealing to men?
Provide Vatican funding for Notre Dame's US football coaching position?
Promote Tim Allen to a high position within the church? (This article http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/11/funnyman-tim-allen-serious-about-god/ implies that Allen had a Roman Catholic childhood.)
On a more serious note, there is a documented disparity between male and female church attendance. http://www.gallup.com/poll/141044/americans-church-attendance-inches-2010.aspx And the good Cardinal isn't the only person who is trying to address this. Take "Church for Men":
"Church for Men is an organization dedicated to helping the local church reach more men and boys….At Church for Men, our focus is not male dominance, but male resurgence."
http://churchformen.com/our-mission-2/what-we-do/
http://churchformen.com/women-start-here-2/
+John E. Bredehoft I agree that there's a disparity between male and female parishioners (in more than just the Catholic church), and that's a challenge that churches need to deal with. The challenge with it is doing so in a way that doesn't kick women in to an even more secondary position than (in the Catholic church, at least) they are relegated under male clergy.
To tie together a number of recent posts…
Yesterday (26/01/15) the Church of England consecrated its first female bishop). (I want to say Penny Lane, but I know that is a Beatles song. I had a girlfriend from Liverpool, so I’ve been to Penny Lane – so unlikely to be a bishop)
During the ceremony a dissenter raised a formal objection – “Not in the Bible”.
This wasn’t unexpected, so the Arch Bishop replied with a prepared statement, about legality.
This was wrong.
The correct response to “not in the Bible” is:
“Neither is fucking cappuccino, so shut the fuck up, and sit the fuck down.”
Thus ends my response to evangelical Christians.