4 These needs which, as We have said, demand your care and your industry, willbe more fully and more suitably attended to if day by day the concord betweenthe Bishops is strengthened, and if their work is made more co-operative inremedying the needs of clergy and laity, in taking counsel and in making suchdecisions as shall seem to align best with the common good, both for theparticular requirements of separate dioceses, and for those that reach fartherand rise higher, with which the prosperity and the weal of the whole people areassociated. The convenience of a stricter bond of union between the Bishops didnot escape the prudence of those who met at Braga. Wherefore those resolutionsof that great Congress were the most gratifying to Us which recommended thefounding of such a bond, through which the faithful look for ampler and lastingbenefits from those rulers who are their directors and their guides.
Source: Pastoralis Vigilantiae (Vatican.va)