US archbishop suggests moving Vatican out of Rome
November 22, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop Christopher Coyne, who will soon be installed as head of the Hartford, Connecticut archdiocese, has suggested moving the Vatican to a new location.
“I’d say get it out of Italy,” the archbishop said to a television interviewer. “Get it out of Rome. Put it wherever you need to. It’s too Roman.”
Explaining his belief that the situation in Rome is detrimental to the Church’s leadership, the archbishop—who was originally a priest of the Boston archdiocese, said “it’s inbred in terms of the culture of that community there.”
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Nov. 22, 2023 10:14 AM ET USA
"It’s too Roman" doesn't mean anything. If the Holy See moved to Germany, it would quickly become "too German," etc. etc. A radical rejection of all sinful, that isn't of the Catholic Faith and morality is all that the Church needs. "The Church, embracing in its bosom sinners, at the same time holy and always in need of being purified, always follows the way of penance and renewal." [Lumen Gentium, 8]
