Archbishop Chaput Warns About Dangers of Devolution to National Bishops’ Conferences (1227)

‘Brothers, we need to be very cautious in devolving important disciplinary and doctrinal issues to national and regional episcopal conferences,’ he told his fellow family synod fathers on Saturday.

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia speaks with CNA, Sept. 15, 2014.

– Joaquin Piero Perez/CNA.

VATICAN CITY — Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia spoke to the synod fathers on Saturday on the importance of precision in language, particularly regarding unity in diversity, and recalled the Protestant Reformation.

“Imprecise language leads to confused thinking,” the archbishop said Oct. 10 at the Vatican, giving “two examples that should cause us some concern”: “inclusive” and “unity in diversity.”