Women's Work.

The article explores how to convey the significance of a tweak to canon law that clarifies women's eligibility to be lectors and acolytes at Mass, and explain the existence of "stable ministries" in the Church, and the now obscure practice of formally instituting lay men into those roles. Topics include American Catholics and Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women; and Pope Francis quoted that pronouncement in a letter accompanying Spiritus Domini.