There are more than 5,000 bishops – far more than the Pope can know personally

Sara Maitland

I know absolutely nothing about the Diocese of Ahiara in Nigeria, and nothing in this column should imply that I understand what is going on there or that I have any specific brilliant ideas to sort out a situation that has clearly become both fraught and painful.

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