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One gets the impression that many Synod on Synodality participants view the subject of local Churches as a kind of Trojan horse.
At the forums, speakers drew heavily on the Church’s dogmatic constitution from Vatican II, Lumen Gentium, in their defenses of synodality.
Catholic Bishops in the Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville) have declared synodality as a “pastoral imperative” in response to the many crises that both the Church and society are facing.
“It's the one Church, it’s the one faith, and we want to keep celebrating that even amidst our cultural diversity,” Australian Archbishop Anthony Fisher said.
The theme of the multi-year Synod on Synodality is foundational for the reconciliation and healing processes in Rwanda, whose citizens continue to recover from the 1994 genocide against Tutsis., a Rwandan Catholic Bishop participating in the ongoing Synod in Rome has said.
The prayer campaign sends a daily email with guidance on how to pray for the “adopted” Synod on Synodality participant.
Speakers claimed an important part of synodality is implementing the proper understanding of a bishop’s authority in his diocese.
The ecumenical prayer vigil Oct. 11 was held in Roman Protomartyrs Square inside Vatican City.
According to Cardinal Kurt Koch, the imperative for all Christian churches to journey, pray, and cooperate is Jesus’ own priestly prayer recorded in John 17.
Delegates at the ongoing second session of the multi-year Synod on Synodality are fostering fraternity in what Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, one of 21 newly named Cardinals, has described as “an extraordinary atmosphere” and “truly a Church atmosphere.”
“When the Holy Father is talking about peripheries, I think the peripheries are moving. ... Maybe the peripheries are moving towards Europe,” Archbishop Kikuchi said.
“I think we have to look at the question very much from … the Spirit. ‘Is the Spirit calling women?’” said Sister Mary Theresa Barron, OLA.
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Closing the first week of meetings, Synod on Synodality participants from different continents put a spotlight on the plight of the world’s poor and vulnerable.
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The Synod on Synodality commenced its second day on Thursday in which 356 participants convened at the Vatican.
The second session of the 16th Ordinary Synod of Bishops, running from Oct. 2–27, marks a critical phase in the Church’s global synodal process.
“Never can a bishop, or any other Christian, think of himself ‘without others,’” Pope Francis said Wednesday at the first meeting of the 2024 Synod on Synodality.
The pope’s surprise announcement comes the morning after Iran launched hundreds of missiles toward Israel.
Theologians in Africa have published a 20-chapter commentary on the Synthesis Report (SR), the 42-page summary report following the 4-29 October 2023 session of the ongoing Synod on Synodality, to create more localized conversations on the report.