VATICAN CITY — Early every morning, in a beautiful domed room off to the side of St. Peter’s Basilica, you can see a charming scene that is at once a commotion yet also nearly silent. It’s dozens of priests rushing to find and don their vestments to say Mass, to pick up a cruet carrying holy water and wine to be turned into the blood of Christ.
These are priests, aided by altar servers donning purple robes, preparing to say an early Mass in one of the basilica’s many chapels. And in this domed room, the sacristy, the occupants are all male.
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