African bishops don’t share their Western counterparts’ doom and gloom
Some general assemblies of the synod of bishops have been more closely supervised, and some better, than others. But the truth is that they’ve always been managed, so the focus on political machinations, the talk of “rigging” and “manipulation”, is only to be expected. But amid the controversy – and amid, to be honest, a fairly lacklustre event – there was one bright spot: we were reminded of the burgeoning growth of the Church in Africa.
