Superior General Brother Álvaro Rodríguez Echeverría is serving as one of the auditors for the Vatican’s 13th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on new evangelization for the transmission of the Christian faith. He is one of 95 secretaries and auditors Pope Benedict XVI appointed to serve at the Synod which includes 262 fathers. The Synod opened with a Mass Sunday, October 7 and runs through October 28 at the Vatican.