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Auguste Meyrat
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Michael Pakaluk
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Francis X. Maier
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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
RECENT COLUMNS
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Auguste Meyrat
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Michael Pakaluk
-
Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
NEWS
COMMENTARY
NOTABLE
On what synods can and cannot do
Edward Peters, In the Light of the Law
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Recent suggestions that diocesan synods may be the best way to handle abuse cases ignore what a synod is and where power in the Church actually resides. Diocesan synods are fundamentally legislative in nature, not judicial, and they have only a consultative (not deliberative) voice and then on only such matters the bishop chooses to present to them.