Doctrine chief for U.S. bishops takes on leading theologian

In the most recent issue of the Quarterly of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Capuchin Fr. Thomas Weinandy, executive director of the U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat of Doctrine, subjects the June presidential address of Terrence Tilley, a Fordham theologian and past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, to a withering critique -- in effect, suggesting that it offered clever rhetoric masking “doctrinal ambiguity and error.”

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