The Pope was visited by a group of young cancer patients who are being treated at Rome’s Agostino Gemelli hospital
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Why is there in the Church, on both sides of the Atlantic, such a failure of leadership? Is it because it is being frustrated by bishops’ conferences?
The bureaucratisation of the hierarchy has left the Church rudderless and ineffective