African synod in Rome sends wrong signal.

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: February 26, 1993 | Copyright information

Pope John Paul formally announced, Jan. 6, Feast of the Epiphany, 1989, that there would be a synod of the African church. The draft document or lineamenta was soon produced. But the church in Africa, growing at the rate of a million and a half baptized every year, bad to wait four years before discovering where and when the synod would be held.

John Paul solved the mystery in Kampala on his 10th visit to Africa. Starting April 10, 1994, the synod will meet in Rome, where all other "special synods" have been held, as a sign of the communion between the African bishops and the ...

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