Listening church: Pope gives new vision for Synod of Bishops

Listening church: Pope gives new vision for Synod of Bishops

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by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Sep 18, 2018

The Synod of Bishops increasingly should be a structure for listening to the Catholic faithful, demonstrating a local bishop's concern for the entire church and a means of expressing all the bishops' unity with the pope, Pope Francis said.