Autonomy and democracy in an autocratic organization: the case of the Roman Catholic Church.

Sociology of Religion | December 22, 1994| | Copyright

"The Church is not a democracy!" This assertion is hardly news, either to Roman Catholics around the world, or to outsiders who have any knowledge at all about the Roman Catholic church throughout its two-thousand-year history. What, we may ask, is happening to cause church leaders, including popes, cardinals and bishops to feel the need to reiterate this assertion with growing frequency and stridency in the decades since the watershed experience of the Church synod known as Vatican II?(1)

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