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CNA explains: How does ‘Mass dispensation’ work, and when is it used?

Dec 26, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Amid heavy immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, several bishops in the U.S. have recently issued broad dispensations to Catholics... Read more

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CNA explains: How does ‘Mass dispensation’ work, and when is it used?

Church of St. Stephen in Jerusalem, Israel, Sept. 18, 2018.

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Pope Leo XIV venerates a statue of the child Jesus during the celebration of Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2025.

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