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‘The Bishop of Rome’: A brief guide for busy readers

Here’s what the Vatican’s new document on ‘primacy and synodality’ says.

Luke Coppen
Jun 13, 2024
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In his 1995 encyclical Ut unum sint, Pope John Paul II made what many at the time considered a startling proposal. 

He invited other Christians around the world to join him in exploring ways in which the Bishop of Rome could exercise a renewed “ministry of unity.”

A detail of the statue of St. Peter in St. Peter’s Square, photographed on Feb. 28, 2013. © …

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