The exclusion of a COVID-19 test option is new to Italy’s ‘Super Green Pass,’ which the Vatican began requiring of ‘visitors to the Vatican Museums, the Vatican Gardens, the Gardens of the Pontifical Villas and the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo’ on January 10.

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