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Stenny's avatar

Can’t wait to hear how roughly 370 people in Rome will have experienced a joyful encounter with the Holy Spirit through unrepresentative summaries of unrepresentative summaries of unrepresentative summaries of unrepresentative discussions of unrepresentative assemblies of unrepresentative Catholics.

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Matthew K Michels, OblSB's avatar

The acute increase of laity being appointed to positions of ecclesial governance erodes both our understanding of "the bishop" and our understanding of "the lay person"

The Second Vatican Council, and the interpretation given us by 3 previous popes, affirms that the particular and unique role of the bishop is to "teach, sanctify, and govern" while the particular and unique role of the laity is to "sanctify the temporal." The current pontificate has been acting contrary to that understanding.

It's a weird dichotomy that the Holy See forbids clerics from holding positions of authority principally related to secular/lay organizations (namely, for-profit businesses and civil government), and yet is encouraging the encroachment of the laity into positions of ecclesial authority principally related to bishops.

(fun trivia fact: 2 priests have been elected and served as congressmen in the US, both in the 1970s)

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