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Earlier this year, the Vatican sent in investigators to look into his governance of the diocese, amid reports he was making doctrinally unorthodox claims.

From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2023

Still, Francis’s church is doctrinally opposed to euthanasia, and he has personally condemned it, so the pope did allude, in one of his public addresses, to “patients who, in place of affection, are administered death.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

And super clear, because this is, as you say, doctrinally not complicated.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2022

St. John Paul II's conservative Vatican had launched a crackdown on liberation theology, and the cause languished in the Vatican's doctrine office while theologians studied his writings to ensure they were doctrinally sound.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2018

As for American Lutheranism, it is not a specific brand of Lutheranism, but simply Lutheranism in America; for doctrinally Lutheranism, like Christianity, with which it is identical, is the same the world over.

From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by Bente, F. (Friedrich)