Benjamin Soloway

Benjamin Soloway is an author at Religion News Service.

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Brazilian bishop urges ordination of married community elders as priest shortage grows

By Benjamin Soloway — November 24, 2014
BELEM, Brazil (RNS) Brazil's National Conference of Bishops is considering a proposal to ordain married community elders as a way to ease the shortage of Catholic priests in rural areas.

As Brazilians drift away from Catholicism, Virgin Mary procession as popular as ever

By Benjamin Soloway — October 17, 2014
BELEM, Brazil (RNS) An arduous public display of devotion to the Virgin Mary has persisted and thrived even as Catholicism loses ground to evangelical faiths in a dramatic transformation of Brazilian society.
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