8 bishops absent as Germany’s synodal committee meets
The committee will seek to implement the synodal way's resolutions.
Eight out of Germany’s 27 diocesan bishops missed Friday’s inaugural meeting of a committee designed to implement the decisions of the country’s “synodal way.”

Four of the bishops are boycotting the body known as the synodal committee, while four others were absent due to other commitments.
German bishops’ conference chairman Bishop Georg Bätzing announced
