✣Highlights from the week online
Francis’s bishops: an uneasy relationship The Pope is hoping to reshape the Church with the support of bishops, said Sandro Magister in L’Espresso. But apart from Italy, “The only national episcopates that he can count on today are those of Germany, Austria, and Belgium, nations in which the Catholic Church is in the most dramatic decline.”
Meanwhile, Magister wrote, “the more vital Churches of Africa are those that stood together, in the two combative synods on the family, against the innovations desired by the Pope”.
