Diarmaid MacCulloch on the next pope: the Catholic church is in crisis – it has avoided reality for too long

UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian

Diarmaid MacCulloch, a professor of the history of the church at the University of Oxford, argues that the job facing the next pope is too great for one man. He says the church should not fear decentralisation, nor the ending of the doctrine of clerical celibacy, nor the affording of equal rights to women – even at the expense of unity

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