Bishop Kevin Rhoades and Cardinal Joseph Tobin emphasized Tuesday the importance of dialogue with the whole American Church, not just the episcopacy, in formulating a new bishops’ conference document on the Eucharist. “What we need is a broader consultation with the American Church on the mystery of the Eucharist and not one that is perceived as political action,” said Tobin, archbishop of Newark, who is a member of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops. “It will make a more useful document.” Rhoades, the chair of the U.S. Bishops Conference Committee on Doctrine that will ultimately draft the document, recalled a conversation he had with about 100 young adults in South Bend Tuesday night on the Eucharist, where he asked what they wanted to see in the document.
U.S. bishops need to ‘listen to the people’ on Eucharist document, panel says
U.S. bishops need to ‘listen to the people’ on Eucharist document, panel says
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