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Church, Ordination, and Power

Some thoughts about how the Catholic Church should deal with structures of power.

St. Benedict’s Raven

September 12, 2018 Jakob K Rinderknecht Children Church Reform Ecumenism Sacramental Theology Vatican II

A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.