Ecclesial Reform Requires the Participation of Laymen in Ecclesial Life

Meador's review highlights one of the main problems with McGinley's book about reform. If Roman Catholic men are expected to "sacrifice" while being part of an institutional life that is completely foreign to anything they are as men because it is so feminized, why would they bother?
What they need is not only a masculine asceticism that is relevant to them (and not monastics), an asceticism that is subordinated to their living out their duties to (and love of) family and of the tribe, but they need to be appreciated as men within the Church, which is not happening thanks to feminism, cultural misandry, and clericalism. Nor are they being appreciated when the institutional Church embraces a feminized worship with female ministers in addition to the male clerics. Women can survive with a worship that is more reason-centered (but doesn't neglect the emotions; rather the emotions serve reason) -- in fact, I bet they do better with a more "male" form of worship. But men cannot thrive at all with a form of worship that caters to emotions and sentimentalism.

In which, while replying to @brandonmcg's book, I wonder if America is in some ways like Endo's Japan in its relationship to Christianity: https://t.co/J1Y7PYj8dL

— Jake Meador (@jake_meador) January 15, 2021