“The Church exists to bear witness in the world to the most decisive moment in history: the Resurrection of Jesus.”
Making clear that every person in the church is challenged to embody this conviction, the final report of the 16th Synod of the Bishops of the Catholic Church – focused on the meaning and practice of Synodality – was published on Saturday October 6th 2024
“The whole People of God is an agent of the proclamation of the Gospel. Every baptised person is called to be a protagonist of mission, since we are all missionary disciples.”
Making clear that all are called to deep conversion, the report emphasises the importance of formation for all and suggests that the next step will be ‘the formation of formators” – the expansion of the training of of facilitators and leaders at every level of the church – from parish to curia. Implementation of the document will depend also upon the response to this challenge from the ten study groups set up by Pope Francis to report on burning issues such as the role of women in the church and canonical changes to make meaningful consultation mandatory even at parish level. Those ten groups must report finally to Pope Francis in June 2025.
To read and download the report in its entirety, click here.
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