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| Sister Helen Prejean in 2006 (Photo by Don LaVange) |
Yet priesthood is not the only key position. Females have been assuming more and more authority within Vatican circles. Pope Francis has been encouraging this through appointments and by changing certain aspects of canon law. For example, women are now able to become acolytes and lectors, thus giving them “official recognition” during Mass.
Such change seems slow but steady. The females themselves have been spurring it on “with their requests, their projects, their identity.”
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