Originally published at The Catholic Thing
As the Vatican begins a three-year implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality, is the process – already criticized for flirting with Protestant ecclesiology – moving ever more toward a model of governance alien to the Catholic Church? Father Gerald Murray thinks so: “The authority of the episcopal college, under and in union with the Pope, to teach, sanctify and govern the People of God, comes from Christ and cannot legitimately be made subject to any arrangement which parcels out that exclusive authority to an assembly made up of priests, deacons, religious and laypeople.”
