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Analysis: Justice by papal fiat points to serious lack of trust within the Church

October 15, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 39

The Vatican announced on Saturday that Pope Francis has reduced two Chilean bishops to the lay state. One of the defrocked is an 85-year-old man reported now to be suffering senile dementia, Francisco José Cox […]

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Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk and Mahilyow is a member of one of the three English-language working groups at the Synod of Bishops, together with a number of the gathering’s most prominent voices, such as […]

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