[Catholic Caucus] In the Amazon Married Deacons Are Already Saying Mass. And the Pope Knows It For a few days a video has been circulating on the web in which an Italian priest of the highest rank, among those closest to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, says that in the Amazon the celebration of the Mass by married deacons is already a de facto reality, authorized by the local bishops. And Pope Francis, informed of the matter, is alleged to have said:”Go ahead!”The author of this revelation is not just anybody. He is Giovanni Nicolini, 79, an esteemed priest of the archdiocese...