One of the items on which Pp Francis is correct is this one.
...“The bishops’ conference is there to bring together the bishops, to work together, to discuss issues, to make pastoral plans. But each bishop is a pastor,” the Pope said in a lengthy interview conducted at his Vatican home on Nov. 22 and published Nov. 28.
“Let us not dissolve the power of the bishop by reducing it to the power of the bishops’ conference.”...
We humbly admit that we advocated for dissolution of the USCC a few days ago.*
Perhaps Pp Francis reads Canon212 and landed here?
*We did NOT suggest that it be nuked. That is a very slight exaggeration of our real position.
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Archbishop Lefebvre and Cardinal Ratzinger also had serious reservations about episcopal conferences, pointing out as Francis does here (hey, he got one right!) that a bishop rules his diocese apart from any statements or designs of a national episcopal conference.
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