"ROME — A number of bishops have begun pushing back against an effort to endow local Church bodies with authority over doctrine, warning that this would lead to a splintering of the Church’s teaching."
"Under the banner of “decentralization,” a coordinated contingent within the current Vatican “Synod on Synodality” has been attempting to give local bishops’ conferences the power to decide on doctrinal issues within their precincts.""Critics have noted that such a move toward federalization would open the door to absurd situations where Catholic moral teaching would vary from place to place, and the same action — say gay sex — would be considered sinful in one territory and perfectly okay in another." FULL STORY at above link.