In March, Beppe Grillo, a comedian previously best-known for founding the anti-establishment Italian political Five Star Movement, appeared onstage in Rome to announce a sudden change of career—he had now decided to found his own religion, too. “Why can’t I create a Church?” he asked his sell-out crowd, which included the nation’s former prime minister Giuseppe Conte. The audience thought they…
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
