Vatican: No girl servers at Latin Masses

by Tom Gallagher

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As reported in the U.K.'s Catholic Herald:

The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei has clarified that girls are not allowed to serve at the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.

It made clear that the Instruction on Summorum Pontificum, Universae Ecclesiae, does not permit female altar servers at the older Mass.

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