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Kukama boys watch boats on the Amazons Maranon River near Dos de Mayo in Perus Loreto region. (CNS/Barbara Fraser) Several years ago, Rodrigo Pedroso began noticing an unusual pattern in the Indigenous villages he visited in the Amazon rainforest: Next to small, often abandoned Catholic chapels were newer, often larger evangelical churches. The observation led Pedroso, a Brazilian journalist, to examine what might be leading people in Indigenous communities to essentially swap...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In his new book, “Church, Interrupted: Havoc & Hope: The Tender Revolt of Pope Francis,” papal historian John Cornwell forecasts the repercussions Pope Francis may have for the Catholic Church, portraying Francis as a priest, bishop and pope who has never been afraid of paving his own way. “I have focused on a consistent feature of his papacy: a capacity to hold opposites in tension, his many paradoxes giving rise to disruption,” Cornwell writes. A veteran writer ...

By Isabella Piro Closeness, synodality and missionary impetus: these are the cornerstones of the Pontificate of Pope Francis, who was elected eight years ago to the Chair of St. Peter. The perspective of his Pontificate starts from below, from the attention paid to those existential and geographical “peripheries” that act as a counterpoint to his being and acting. Inviting all to recover “the original freshness of the Gospel,” he urges the faithful to take up a new fervor and dynamism s...

Background: In May 2016, Pope Francis responded to a question posed at the triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG): If women religious are already performing the many ministries of deacons, why not form a commission to study the restoration of women to the diaconate? The pope responded immediately, naming 12 scholars the following August to the Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women who met in Rome four times and returned a report by June 2018. ...

Pope warns against ideological elites at launch of Latin American assembly Jan 25, 2021 rome bureau chief In this file photo, Pope Francis leads the midday recitation of the Angelus Jan. 17, 2021, from the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) On Sunday, the Catholic Church in Latin America launched  a consultation process that involves not only the hierarchy but also the laity, and Pope Francis reminded those taking part that "an elite illumined by...

What has changed in canon law for women? Pope Francis is pushing the Church to be more open to women, but slowly and carefully Pope Francis has sought more roles for women in decision-making and leadership positions in the Church. (Photo: Good Shepherds) Most Catholics, who grew up seeing women at the altar reading from the Bible and serving at Mass, wondered what was improved when Pope Francis changed canon law this month, purportedly to allow women to participate in such services. Although wo...

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Women have served as lectors and acolytes for decades. Now Pope Francis has changed canon law to formally recognize their ministry.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Recognizing the gifts of each baptized person -- women and men -- Pope Francis ordered a change to canon law and liturgical norms so that women could be formally installed as lectors and acolytes. A consolidated practice in the Latin church has confirmed, in fact, that such lay ministries, being based on the sacrament of baptism, can be entrusted to all the faithful who are suitable, whether male or female, the pope wrote in his order changing canon law. The document,

Pope amends canon law so women can minister as lectors, acolytes A lector delivers a reading during Mass at a church in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., Aug. 20, 2014. Pope Francis ordered a change to the Code of Canon Law so that women may be formally instituted as lectors and acolytes. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) By Cindy Wooden • Catholic News Service • Posted January 11, 2021 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Recognizing “the gifts of each baptized person” — women and men — Pope Francis ordered a ch...