VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
by Phyllis Zagano | Oct. 10, 2012
Just Catholic
I think it was the late Jeane Kirkpatrick, a former UN ambassador and sharp-tongued conservative, who said it. True quote or not, the thought remains: “There’s no shortage of people willing to spend a week in Paris talking about poverty.”
Now 262 bishops and 94 hand-picked others are spending three weeks in Rome talking about evangelization.
Pasta, anyone?
The 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on “The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith” will cost who-knows-what and give the various attendees an opportunity to talk about talking about church. Seven of the bishops and 10 experts and auditors are from the United States. The entire crowd presents all the outlooks in the church from right to far right.
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