Catholic — News Report — Pope Solidifies Ministries for Women

> Continues sideline of minor orders

> In a motu proprio issued Sunday, Pope Francis gave the green light to female lectors, acolytes and extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, making it legally impossible for any bishop in communion with Rome to bar women from these liturgical roles.

> In the document, titled Spiritus Domini (The Spirit of the Lord), the pontiff modified canon law to reflect, now officially, that these ministries "may be entrusted to all suitable faithful, whether male or female, in accordance with what is already implicitly provided for by Canon 230."

> The pontiff goes a step further and enshrines in canon law what Paul VI began in his 1972 motu proprio titled Ministeria Quaedam, in which Paul VI exchanged the four traditional minor orders for two ministries, but only for men.

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