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Church in Brazil

Did a woman ‘concelebrate’ at an archbishop’s Mass in Brazil?

Images show the woman participating in the entrance procession and taking a seat with the concelebrating priests.

Filipe d’Avillez
Feb 17, 2025
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Becoming embroiled in a Church scandal over the inaugural Mass in his new archdiocese is likely not what Archbishop Odelir José Magri had in mind last week.

But that is exactly what happened on Feb. 13, when images and video surfaced of a Mass in the Archdiocese of Chapecó, Brazil, in which a woman dressed in an alb and stole participated in the opening …

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