In recent years, clergy and lay people in the United States have increasingly turned to the church's internal legal system to challenge a bishop's or pastor's decision about even the most workaday issues in Catholic life.
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NCR's sister publication, Celebration, has begun posting reflections on each day's Scripture reading. Here's a link: celebrationpublications.org/dailybread You may want to bookmark it. It's a great way to begin the day.