Women have the ministry of acolyte and lector
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With the company motu proprio "Spiritus Domini", which modifies the first paragraph of canon 230 of the Code of Canon Law, the Pontiff therefore establishes that women can access the ministries of acolyte and lectorate and that they are also attributed through a liturgical act that institutionalizes them .
The card. Bassetti returns to his Perugia
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The card. Gualterio Bassetti has returned to the Covid illness that struck him at the age of 78. I remained in intensive care for ten days, with a sudden worsening and then began that slow, progressive and in some ways miraculous improvement that is consolidating. Now the cardinal has returned to his diocese of Perugia where he will spend Christmas among his people. He wanted to talk about his days in hospital and other issues at the center of Italian ecclesial life in a long interview with Avvenire, of which we report some passages.
"In the evening of life"
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“In the evening of life. Reflections on the terminal phase of earthly life" is the document drawn up by the National Office for Pastoral Health Care of the CEI. The text is the result of a reflection shared in the Commission for the service of charity and health which wanted to investigate with responsibility and respect "precisely in that delicate moment of existence defined as the 'process of dying'".