Bishops' conference downgraded?. (News in Brief: Canada).Ottawa--In a November 15, 2002 address about the reception of Vatican II Noun 1. Vatican II - the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms Second Vatican Council Vatican Council - each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church at the institutional level, retired canon lawyer Father Frank Morrisey, O.M.I., former dean of canon law canon law, in the Roman Catholic Church, the body of law based on the legislation of the councils (both ecumenical and local) and the popes, as well as the bishops (for diocesan matters). at St. Paul's
In paraphrasing Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Fr. Morrisey admitted that this was not necessarily the fault of the Vatican. "If the bishops would hold on to their mission as judges in matters of faith and doctrine" he quoted the Cardinal as saying, "the desired decentralization de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. would be realized automatically." That's Church jargon, Morrisey said, "for saying that if the bishops would do their work, it wouldn't have to be centralized in Rome." Despite all the protests to the contrary, Morrisey observed, "the CCCB CCCB Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops CCCB Central Christian College of the Bible (Missouri) CCCB Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) CCCB Child Care Choices of Boston is struggling with division between the English and French sectors which is very strong when it comes to questions of costs. It takes about three years to get any decision through the conference," he added. Much of the real work is done at the regional level, he said; "I would not be at all surprised to see that someday...it will be (four) regional groups that will at last have recognition. It is certainly the way things are going right now." Regional groups refer to the four bishops' conferences of the Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, and Western Canada
Western Canada, commonly referred to as the West . The canon lawyer was not in favour of holding a Plenary Council, as has been proposed in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. following last June's meeting in Dallas which dealt with the American clergy scandals. "This might be a very bad thing," he said, "because some of the newer bishops in Canada may be considered reactionary and might want to bring things back to a restoration era, suppressing some of the structures of the Church in Canada." Needless to say, Father Morrisey did not name the bishops he described as "reactionary." |
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