The Holy See has been left as the only one, in Europe and North America, to maintain diplomatic relations with Taiwan, together with Paraguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belize, Haiti, and eight small island states in the Caribbean and Pacific. But on October 21 an anonymous source from the Vatican secretariat of state told…
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and