By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - So the bishops, as a body, also have “supreme and full power.” How is that power exercised? Through the Synod of Bishops, presumably... Lumen Gentium tells us (23): “For it is the duty of all bishops to promote and to safeguard the unity of faith and the discipline common to the whole Church…”... So perhaps the best possible outcome of the October Synod meeting would be a realization, among the world’s bishops, that at a time when fundamental tenets of the faith are under attack, and when statements from the Holy See have aggravated a widespread confusion, it is the duty of the bishops to restore clarity.