Vatican City, Oct 5, 2023 / 11:46 am
Making Jesus our all and proclaiming him to the world is the Church’s “greatest urgency, the truest reform,” the bishop of Assisi, Italy, said this week in a letter to the Synod on Synodality.
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino oversees a diocese in central Italy best known for the city of Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis.
In his Oct. 4 letter, the archbishop said he and the diocese are praying for the members of the synodal assembly, which is taking place at the Vatican Oct. 4–29.
Sorrentino — who retains the personal title of archbishop even as head of a diocese — recalled some of the places related to St. Francis in the town of Assisi, especially the “Sanctuary of the Renunciation.”