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Spiritus Domini is an apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio by Pope Francis signed on 10 January 2021 and released the next day. It changed the 1983 Code of Canon Law to allow women to be admitted to the instituted ministries of acolyte and lector (reader), which had until then been exclusively available to men.
A pope who demonstrates that he is a man with his feet on the ground. The washing of the feet just mentioned angered many Catholic traditionalists. [58] Pope Francis performed the Lenten washing of the feet, traditionally at Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, at a juvenile detention home and included two girls and two Muslims. He had stated ...
Watch as Pope Francis takes part in Easter Mass at the Vatican on Sunday 9 April.. Holy Week, as it is known, includes a busy schedule of rituals and ceremonies that can be physically exhausting ...
A Pontifical High Mass, also called Solemn Pontifical Mass, is a Solemn or High Mass celebrated by a bishop using certain prescribed ceremonies. Although in modern English the word "pontifical" is almost exclusively associated with the pope , any bishop may be properly called a pontiff .
Watch live as Pope Francis holds mass for tens of thousands of Catholics at the Velodrome Stadium in Marseille on Saturday 23 September. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to attend the ...
11 January – Pope Francis issues the Spiritus Domini, allowing women to serve as lectors and acolytes in the Catholic Church. [2] 5 March – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to visit Iraq. [3] 4 April – The 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines celebrations begin, marking the quincentennial of Christianity's arrival in the nation ...
At the papal Mass for an estimated 6,000 people in St. Peter's Basilica and 25,000 more watching on screens in the square outside, the pope also repeated an earlier call for developed nations to ...
The Church in the world today and the needs of the New Evangelization, the status of the Holy See and of the Roman Curia's dicasteries (its departments: the congregations, the courts, and the pontifical councils, commissions, and academies), relations with bishops, and expectations of a future pope, were discussed. That evening, a prayer ...