
A Decentralized Church: What Would Be Acceptable?
NEWS ANALYSIS: An assessment of the positives and negatives of giving more power to bishops and their flocks.
NEWS ANALYSIS: An assessment of the positives and negatives of giving more power to bishops and their flocks.
Archbishop Eamon Martin, the primate of Ireland, said he did not support ‘the idea that somehow it’s up to individual bishops conferences to interpret the teaching of the Church.’
‘Brothers, we need to be very cautious in devolving important disciplinary and doctrinal issues to national and regional episcopal conferences,’ he told his fellow family synod fathers on Saturday.
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