JD and Ed detail the biggest ecclesiastical governance story of the year— the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith blocks the Vatican Secretariat of State’s “extraordinary procedure” to reinstate a laicized priest, who was convicted of child sexual abuse.

Ed plays a round of para ‘Yes or No.’

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