RECENT COLUMNS
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Stephen P. White
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H.W. Crocker III
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Randall Smith
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Amy Fahey
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
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RECENT COLUMNS
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Stephen P. White
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H.W. Crocker III
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Randall Smith
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Amy Fahey
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia
NEWS
COMMENTARY
Francis the decider
Andrea Gagliarducci, MondayVatican
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
During the last meeting of the Council of Cardinals, decentralization was one of the issues on the table, and the possibility of giving more autonomy to bishops’ conferences on some topics was also discussed. Pope Francis loves to talk about the notion of synodality. But in the end, it is he alone who always makes the decisions. After four years, his modus operandi can be definitively characterized as a decision-making one.