Pope Francis met with Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on Wednesday amid rising expectations of a second encounter between the Pope and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2022. The Holy See press office said that the Pope received the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate before his general audience on Dec. 22.
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
