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Text transcribed from caption: C-46130 PRELATES REPORT TO SYNOD VATICAN CITY
-- Four of the five prelates appointed by Pope Paul to act as "relators" or
summarizing spokesmen of their colleagues in five parts of the world --
Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia, and Europe -- report to a session
of the Synod of Bishops. From left are: Bishop Eduardo Pironio of Mar del
Plata, Argentina, who presented the Latin American viewpoint on the central
question of the synod, “Evangelization in the Modern World;" Bishop James
D. Sangu of Mbeya, Tanzania, who reported for the African Bishops'
Conference; Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, representing North
America, Australia and Oceania; and Cardinal Joseph Cordeiro, Archbishop of
Karachi, Pakistan, who spoke on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Asia. Also
acting as a "relator," but not shown, was Archbishop Roger Etchegaray of
Marseille, France, spokesman for the views of European Bishops' Conferences.
In their reports, the prelates pointed to the decline in the number of
priests, nationalism, liberation movements, and the image of "a narcissistic
Church," as some of the problems facing the Church. Credit Must Read:
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