Synod: A Rabbi, a Jesuit and the Pope walk into a bar ?
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Rome
It sounds suspiciously like a joke in search of a punch-line: ?The pope, a rabbi and a Jesuit walk into a bar.? Change the word ?bar? to ?synod hall,? however, and it's no joke, but rather the agenda for Monday afternoon?s session of the Synod of Bishops on the Bible, in what promises to be among the early highlights of the three-week event.