An Indian Catholic Cardinal's call for local church leaders to have more power and for papal authority to be distributed to lower levels within the Catholic hierarchy has elicited agreement from other church leaders in India. He also asserted that bishops should not have "to run to Rome for everything" and that canon law should be modified to allow the pope to share his authority. Vithayathil is calling for ____.

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The call for distributing papal authority to lower levels and allowing local church leaders more power aligns with the concept of decentralization.

An Indian Catholic Cardinal's Call for Local Church Leaders to Have