Synod study group proposes commission to assess ‘ad limina’ visits

The group also calls for online follow-up meetings between bishops and curial officials

The Catholic Church needs an “independent ecclesiastical commission” to evaluate bishops’ ad limina visits.

English and Welsh bishops pictured during their 2010 ad limina visit. Credit: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk.

That is one of the conclusions of a nine-page document released Sept. 8 by the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod on the visits that r…