ROME — At the opening news conference of the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the family on Monday, two leading European prelates said they were waiting to hear the voice of the Church in Africa with “great interest and respect.”

When that time comes, one African in the synod hall who’s likely to have plenty to say is Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, who heads the Vatican’s primary department on worship.

In a new book published by Ignatius Press in the United States, Sarah, 70, says that African Catholics are “committed in the name of the Lord Jesus to keeping unchanged the teaching of God and of the Church.”

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