U.S. bishop: Church needs decentralization, not doctrinal fragmentation
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The decentralization of certain aspects of the Catholic Church’s governance, as proposed in the Synod of Bishops on synodality, should not lead to a decentralization of doctrine, said the former chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine. Allowing different bishops’ conferences to teach varying doctrines “would be disastrous,” said Bishop…