Originally published at The Catholic Thing
Archbishop Andrew Nkea of Bamenda, Cameroon, said the continent’s delegates helped defeat a proposal to give national episcopal conferences greater doctrinal autonomy, a change he said would have led to a “chaotic Church.” He says the African delegates are returning home “full of joy,” he said, partly because the final report does not shift doctrinal authority to the episcopal conferences, as some in the West were pushing for.
