True and False Democracy in the Church: My latest in the National Catholic Register
May 22, 2024
Crisis in the Church
Vatican II's use of the "people of God" metaphor was not ecclesial code for "the laity"
Democracy can be a very good thing. But it does not apply to everything. And it is also critical to understand what is meant by democracy in the first place. Can hierarchical structures, paradoxically, end up being more "democratic" than the bureaucratic democracy of modernity?
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/true-and-false-democracy-in-catholic-church
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