New Oxford Notes: May 2015
The Beginning of the End?
A recently installed pastor's decision to allow only boys to serve at the altar has made headlines throughout the San Francisco area and across the nation. Salvatore Cordileone is his archbishop.
READ MORE ON THIS NOTE.The Theological Blurriness of Cardinal Marx
German Cardinals Marx and Kasper have implied by their words and actions that national episcopal conferences can form their own doctrinal and pastoral policies apart from Rome and contrary to the Church's universal teaching.
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