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Pope Francis installed female catechists and lectors on Sunday for the first time since adapting the laws of the Roman Catholic Church to expand the formal roles of women in the church.

ANDREW PIERCE: Some ministers were complaining about the licence fee. She agreed with them and has now acted on those concerns, freezing it at £159.

The domestic church cannot be overestimated. The Catholic Christian family has an outstanding calling to help renew our culture.

Bob Pleus lived a full life of service to community through the military, as a judge and as mayor of the town of Windermere.

The priesthood in the Church is reserved for men only, according to the will of Christ himself, who chose his apostles from among men

The recent establishment of a ministry of lay catechist raises more questions than it answers.

On the Rite of Institution of Catechists The Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments says “the publication of the Rite of Institution of Catechists offers a further opportunity for reflection on the theology of ministries in order to arrive at an organic vision of the distinct ministerial realities.” After formally instituting the ministry of the catechist with the motu proprio Antiquum ministerium, Pope Francis has approved and published an Editi...

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THE former Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia, Roger Herft, has been deposed from Holy Orders fo...