An Indian cardinal's call for episcopal conferences to have more power and for papal authority to be decentralized has elicited agreement from other church leaders in India.

Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil of Ernakulam-Angamaly stated in a published interview that the Indian church has been forced "to depend on the Roman curia for too many matters." He also asserted that bishops should not have "to run to Rome for everything" and that canon law should be modified to help decentralize the pope's authority.

The interview with Vithayathil appeared in the first ...

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