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Woman Leads Liturgy on Saturday in Cathedral Instead of Eucharist

On March 14, a Saturday, for the first time, a woman led a liturgical celebration in place of the “Sunday” Eucharist in the Cathedral of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.

Italian media spoke of "la celebrante" ("the celebrant").

Maja Clara and has been leading such liturgies for about ten years. She works as a journalist at the state press agency. “As a child, I wanted to be a pastor,” she says.

The Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone, which covers the German speaking South Tyrol, is run by Bishop Ivo Muser.

In the diocese, about 500 (!) laypeople are entrusted with this ministry, nearly two-thirds are women. The Diocese has 500k Catholics and about 350 priests in 280 parishes. This makes less than 1,5k nominal Catholics per priest.

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Father Karl A Claver

This has been going on here in the United States for over 30 years. Deacons were never asked to have these services, only women were permitted to do so.

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doghouseriley5

In 1960 when 75% of Catholics went to Mass weekly there was one priest for every 600 of them. Today there is one priest for every 220. There is no priest shortage, there is a Mass attending Catholic shortage.

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Irishpol

The issue of fulfilling the "Sunday Obligation" was not addressed in this article. Was it reported elsewhere that this liturgy fulfilled that requirement?

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