In today's Washington Post:
Vatican May Limit Girls' Role in Mass
VATICAN CITY, Sept. 23 -- Under new rules being drafted by the Vatican to crack down on "abuses" in the Roman Catholic Mass, altar boys will be given preference over altar girls, who should serve during the rites only in special cases, Vatican officials said today.
Farther down in the same article:
The new norms also would prohibit dances and applause during the mass. Ethnic dancing has been a feature of papal services during the pope's many foreign trips and applause for the pontiff when he enters and exits Mass has grown common, even in St. Peter's Basilica.
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