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eNewsletter Subject: Recovering the Church's Jurisdiction
It is instructive that so many issues today revolve around the jurisdictional authority of the Catholic Church. For example, take marriage, which is under attack today in surprising ways. Phil Lawler explains one of the problems in On the News: Divorce, remarriage, Communion, and the sense of the faithful.
Phil also observes the dreadful irony of the approach taken by other churches. See Another first for Episcopalians.
Along similar lines, in my latest On the Culture essay, I explore The Church’s Jurisdiction Today: Action Trumps Inaction. Two of the examples I used were taken from these two news stories:
- Vatican's doctrinal official gives blunt warning to LCWR (see also the complete text of Archbishop Müller's remarks).
- Another UN panel batters Vatican on abuse (see also the complete text of the response of the Vatican representative).
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