Retired Novaliches Bishop Teodoro Bacani
(RCAM / Paul Guanlao / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
The prelate, however, explained that this has long been allowed in practice.
“He is just formalizing approval of what is being done,” Bacani said in an interview Monday.
In fact at the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene or Quiapo Church in Manila majority of lectors are women.
“At present, a great majority of lectors are women. Our sacristans are all boys to encourage some to enter the seminary. Young girls and boys are in the children’s ministry and youth ministry,” Quiapo Church Rector Monsignor Hernando Coronel said.