Iraqi bishops’ standoff now at ‘higher ecclesiastical court’, cardinal says
Cardinal Sako said Saturday that he has handed off a canonical dispute, a move widely perceived as an act of de-escalation within the Chaldean Church
The Patriarch of Baghdad has forwarded his canonical complaint against several Chaldean bishops to “the higher ecclesiastical court,” according to a statement on September 7.
The statement did not specify to which higher canonical authority he had forwarded his threatened canonical action aga…