Vatican overhaul?

Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese proposes making the Catholic church more like a modern democracy, with checks and balances and much of the pope’s power devolved to bishops and priests. Provocative, but as he himself concludes, the chances of this happening are “probably close to zero.”

Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese proposes making the Catholic church more like a modern democracy, with checks and balances and much of the pope’s power devolved to bishops and priests. Provocative, but as he himself concludes, the chances of this happening are “probably close to zero.”

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