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Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics and the lay co-president of the Synodal Path, Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, and Beate Gilles, general secretary of the German bishops' conference, attend the fourth synodal assembly in Frankfurt Sept. 9, 2022. (CNS photo/Julia Steinbrecht, KNA)