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Chilean bishops on the hot seat in Rome
Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Pope Francis’s move to summon the Chilean bishops for “reflection” on the collapse of confidence in their church – one to which he glaringly contributed – is a distinct rarity: you’d have to go back to 1980, when John Paul II convoked a Synod intended to wrest Dutch Catholicism away from its perceived post-Conciliar excesses, to find the last instance of an entire national bench being called to Rome outside of a standard ad limina visit.