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Pope Francis introduces voting age limit for bishops of Eastern Catholic Churches

April 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches at the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Feb. 18, 2022 / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Apr 17, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).
On Monday Pope Francis introduced… […]

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Pope Francis discusses revising priestly celibacy in new interview

March 10, 2023 Catholic News Agency 9

Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on March 8, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2023 / 05:45 am (CNA).
In a new interview, Pope Francis has discussed the possibility of revising the Western discipline of priestly celibacy.“There… […]

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Why talk of Catholic-Lutheran intercommunion damages Catholic-Orthodox relations

June 3, 2018 Ines Angeli Murzaku 13

If the Catholic Church can and will think of intercommunion, then intercommunion with the Orthodox Churches is the most reasonable, probable, and feasible. […]

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Pope Francis, “diaconal primacy”, and decentralization of the curia

December 28, 2017 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 38

Decentralization by no means guarantees better governance, but is much more theologically, historically, and practically defensible than the Roman centralization and personality cult of the […]

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