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A popular pope, but not with bishops

The only national episcopates that he can count on to support him today are those of Germany, Austria, and Belgium, nations in which the Catholic Church is in the most dramatic decline. While on the contrary 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. [1]