The US bishops are making their ad limina visits this month, the pilgrimages bishops must make every five years “to the threshold of the Apostles” – particularly Peter and Paul – during which they pray at the tombs of the first Bishop of Rome and the great evangeliser of the Gentiles.
These days, ad limina visits are filled with rounds of meetings with various dicasteries of the Roman Curia, in which bishops discuss the reports on the states of their respective dioceses, as well as the general situation of the Church in their countries. There’s also almost always a meeting with the Pope.
