Letter From America
Marion McKeone: US Catholic hierarchy are heading for a very public split
The deep political divide in the US is echoed in the schism in American Catholicism
The polarisation of the United States, the red and blue state divide and the ever-deepening antipathy and mistrust between liberals and conservatives is a favourite topic of talking heads and pundits.
America’s Catholic hierarchy is experiencing its own polarisation – which is remarkably similar to the one playing out across the US. On Wednesday, a three-week conference – the culmination of a two-year ‘Synod on Synodality’ of Catholic bishops – gets underway in Rome. Synodality ...