Archbishop Gregory Aymond and Bishop Shelton Fabre flew to Rome on Friday to join 20 other regional Catholic bishops for a once-every-five-years series of face-to-face meetings with the pope and Vatican bureaucrats to brief them on conditions in their local churches. The so-called “ad limina” visits are the global church’s management technique for maintaining regular formal contact with its far-flung outposts.

Normally, every five years, Catholic bishops report to Rome in geographic groups. This year, United States bishops report.

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