Probably the most newsy -- and somewhat unexpected -- item in the final propositions of the Synod of Bishops on the Bible was a proposal to allow women to be installed officially in the ministry of ...

Meet Jill Thompson, a blind Benedictine oblate who serves as a lector at St. Scholastica Monastery. She shares sacred texts with devotion and grace.

Highlighting the importance of the Bible in the life of faith and the role of lay women and men in sharing the Gospel, Pope Francis formally installed eight men and women in the ministry of lector and ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued a motu proprio Monday changing canon law to allow women to serve as lectors and acolytes. In the motu proprio “Spiritus Domini,” issued on Jan. 11, the pope changed ...

Eleven seminarians from Saint Vincent Seminary were instituted into the Ministry of Lector by the Most Rev. Jeffrey M. Monforton, S.T.D., bishop of Steubenville, on April 11 in the Archabbey Basilica.

Pope Francis presides over an Epiphany mass in St.Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen ROME – Pope Francis Sunday celebrated a special Mass ...

Highlighting the importance of the Bible in the life of faith and the role of lay women and men in sharing the Gospel, Pope Francis formally installed eight men and women in the ministry of lector and ...

Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord in St. Peter’s Basilica on January 6. VATICAN—Pope Francis published on January 11 an apostolic letter issued motu proprio (on ...

Pope Francis arrives to celebrate Mass marking Sunday of the Word of God in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Jan. 23, 2022. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) In a move marked by little fanfare ...