If this latest move in shifting power over to the Bishops on Liturgical reform he’s saying in-effect, see, we can all be popes, so you don’t need me except in an emergency. So now I can begin my move to Jerusalem.

Pope Francis, who has used his absolute authority in the Vatican to decentralize power from Rome, made a widespread change Saturday to the ways, and words, in which Roman Catholics worship by amending Vatican law to give national bishop conferences greater authority in translating liturgical language. MORE