Bishops must be loving shepherds, pope tells archbishops

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Teak Phillips/St. Louis Review

VATICAN CITY (CNS) –– Bishops are called to watch over their faithful not like "a prison guard," but with the same love and concern that God watches over the world, Pope Benedict XVI said.

"To watch from God's perspective is to watch with that love that wants to serve the other, to help the other truly become him- or herself," the pope said June 29 during his homily on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

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