IT IS TOO TRUE, TOO FUNNY, TOO IRONIC AND TOO TRUE: IT IS THE QUOTE OF THE CENTURY!

THIS IS FROM THE PILLAR, THE PART HIGHLIGHTED IN RED IS THE SYNODAL QUOTE OF THE CENTURY!

Africa is arguably the most dynamic continent in the Catholic world, with buoyant vocations and high levels of Mass attendance. 

As John Allen noted in January, “Nigeria alone has roughly the same number of regularly practicing Catholics as all of western Europe.”

• “In much Catholic parlance, it’s long been said that Africa is the future of the Church,” he wrote. 
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• “Looking at the numbers in terms of who actually shows up, however, Africa isn’t the future. It’s the present, and it has been for a while.”
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One mark of the African assembly’s significance is that its closing Mass will be held at a sports stadium, while Asia’s closing Mass took place in a small church and Europe’s Masses were typically celebrated in a conference room. 

All the continental assemblies are reflecting on the working document“Enlarge the space of your tent.” But a Nigerian priest said in January that West African Catholics had reservations about the tent imagery.