Renewal 101: Episcopal rule is personal, not bureaucratic
The bishop has a personal authority deriving from his episcopal office. He is for his diocese what the pope is for the whole Church.
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The bishop has a personal authority deriving from his episcopal office. He is for his diocese what the pope is for the whole Church.
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
Some stories reveal hidden (and even absurd and laughable) depths which we too often tend to forget.
Chastity is very hard in a society characterized by broken families, an absence of sound male and female role models, and an inundation of sexual temptation.
Francis seldom (but not never) makes a moral point that is distinctively Catholic, that might rub the wrong way those who are both in and of the world.