In a move called “hugely important,” Pope Francis has changed canon law to allow individual bishops and national bishops’ conferences to make independent decisions about liturgy and translations in different parts of the world. Some see it as an enriching decentralization, others as the destruction of Catholic universality.

Francis liberalizes the liturgy
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