There were six bishops from Africa at the conference in Belgium in 2006. Bishop Fritz Lobinger has since retired.

Let me tell you that Card. Ozwald Gracias from Mumbai was also present with two other Asian Bishops. But Card. Ozwald took a conservative stance and kept telling me, “Virginia do not speak about women priests!”

The other two Asian bishops shared how they had community leaders who kept communities alive in their dioceses.
I personally think that a proposal for community priests would work the best. I hope there are bishops that would make this proposal. CP are people emerging from the community and best able to minister to the community with the help of a team from the community. They are all elected from the community.

I wrote an article on the Church for the Future on this. I can share it with this group of anyone is interested.