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I’ve been doing as a agnostic who is coming to realize my own faith in Christ and maybe even Catholicism ever since the schism and Protestant reformation the issue never was the authority of the pope but the centralization and nepotism of the who hierarchy. The hierarchy isn’t wrong but more power and accountability needs to be put in local ...
10 ore fa · Church hierarchy should be subordinate to civil power (the Leviathan), whose legitimacy is based on the social contract (see, for example, the chapter Of Power Ecclesiastical, Hobbes 2008, 327–390). Hume’s case for a supervised church or reformed popular religion is fragmentary, but some general ideas can be reconstructed.
10 ore fa · Such scandals have utterly transformed the power, status, and influence of the hierarchical church. At the time of writing, 38 dioceses (out of a total of 196) have sought bankruptcy protection ...
10 ore fa · It criticized the Catholic Church hierarchy for covering up the abuse and found that the Church prioritized its reputation over the protection of children. One priest admitted to abusing over 100 children, while another abused fortnightly throughout his 25-year ministry.
10 ore fa · Lay people and the Catholic hierarchy are stepping up their resolutions against the far-right. The bishops are urging people not to vote for the AfD party in the June 9 European elections.
10 ore fa · The degree of this interest is perhaps best indicated by the book, Renewal and the Powers of Darkness (Suenens 1983), in which Belgian Cardinal Léon-Joseph Suenens (1983, p. 62), the major patron of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the Church hierarchy, cautioned against what he called an “immoderate demonism” which emerged by “osmosis” between Pentecostal ideas and those of ...
10 ore fa · A report from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on diocesan discussions about the Synod on Synodality released on 28th May made clear how many issues are causing tensions in the American Catholic Church. Disagreements exist over liturgy, the role of women, clericalism, sex abuse, church teaching and cultural and racial differences.
