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Pope says women can read at Mass, but still can't be priests

by Nicole Winfield
| January 11, 2021 4:09 AM

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis changed church law Monday to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the most sacred place on the altar, while continuing to affirm that they cannot be priests.

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