Pope's point man for charity urges world not to forget homeless in vaccination push
- Jan 21, 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.
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.