From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I recently had a conversation with an Episcopal priest about the approaching Feast of the Purification. He said that he would not emphasize the Churching of Women connection. There is such a ceremony in the old Episcopal Prayerbook. So it must have been a Catholic practice in the Middle Ages. Is that so? Do you know when it stopped as a regular Catholic practice? (Feminism, perhaps?)