Benedict XVI said to believe in collegiality

4:37 pm: American who has worked with pope says Benedict wants to share power with bishops at Free New Mexican

By NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press
May 11, 2005

VATICAN CITY - An American who has worked with Pope Benedict XVI suggested Wednesday the pope would embrace sharing more power with local bishops _ a big issue in the United States where Catholics have sometimes chafed under Rome's control.

Dominican Rev. Augustine Di Noia, undersecretary in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told Vatican Radio it was "significant" that the pope had included the bishop's miter in his papal coat of arms rather than the traditional papal tiara. ...

The key question is of course just what form this collegiality will take? More synods of bishops? Greater local authority? It will be interesting to see