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Altar servers are pictured as Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in the Zairean rite for the Congolese community in St. Peter s Basilica at the Vatican in this Dec. 1, 2019, file photo. In the preface to a new book, the pope said the approval of the Zairean rite of the Roman Missal shows that it s also possible to develop a rite for the Amazon region. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.)
Last year, Pope Francis called the Zairean Rite “the only inculturated rite of the Latin Church approved after the Second Vatican Council.”
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Last year, Pope Francis called the Zairean Rite “the only inculturated rite of the Latin Church approved after the Second Vatican Council.”