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Francis is scheduled to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday afternoon and address young people and catechists in the Martyrs' Stadium in Kinshasa, the capital, on Thursday morning.

At Sunday’s Mass the pope installed six women and two men as lectors and three women and five men as catechists.

The new law creating the lay ministry of catechists officially recognizes for the universal Catholic Church a practice that has been used for centuries in local dioceses.

Her mother was a catechist at her local parish who instilled in Alvarez lessons in human dignity for the poor, friends said.

“I know a lot of people in my circle of friends and acquaintances who have worked as a catechist, and they’re not up for sainthood,” she says.