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  • Vatican formalizes ability for women to be lectors, altar servers

    Vatican formalizes ability for women to be lectors, altar servers

    • Jan 11, 2021

    Pope Francis has issued a new law formalizing the ability for women and girls to be lectors and altar servers at Mass, something which has long been the common practice in western countries such as the United States but had yet to be written into law.

    By Elise Ann Allen
  • Prelate close to pope: Divorced/remarried can be teachers, lectors, godfathers

    Prelate close to pope: Divorced/remarried can be teachers, lectors, godfathers

    • Mar 4, 2018

    Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano, Italy, who’s the secretary of Pope Francis’s Council of cardinal advisers, told his priests Friday that “fitting” divorced and remarried Catholics can play roles such as being godfathers and godmothers, religion teachers and lectors at Mass.

    By John L. Allen Jr.

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