CWN - The head of the Chaldean Catholic Church has reprimanded priests and religious who have left Iraq in recent months without the permission of their bishop or religious superior.
Priests and religious may not decide “where to serve, how to serve, and [whom] to serve,” said Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako, according to a Fides report. “We have to live and die in the place where God calls us.”
Priests and religious who do not return to Iraq within a month, the patriarch added, will face disciplinary measures.
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