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Pope Lauds African Rite ‘Invoking Ancestors’Francis: Inculturated Zairean rite a 'promising model' for AmazonVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is praising an inculturated African Mass rite as a model for a proposed Amazonian indigenous rite even though the African eucharistic liturgy incorporates the pagan custom of "invocation of ancestors.""Spirits of Brothers & Sisters" painting depicting ancestral religion "The Zairean rite suggests a promising way also for the possible elaboration of an Amazonian rite," writes Francis in his preface for a new book titled Pope Francis and the Roman Missal of the Dioceses of Zaire: A Promising Rite for Other Cultures.The...