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Should lay people investigate cardinals?
Judy Roberts, NC Register
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
When Philip Nielsen set out as a concerned Catholic layman to respond to what he saw as a lack of transparency in Church governance, he knew he could expect opposition. Indeed, he has faced plenty since word got out that he was organizing Better Church Governance, a group that plans to investigate the Church’s cardinals and publish its findings in what it calls the Red Hat Report.