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Pope Francis announced the Synod on Synodality on March 7, 2020. [22] On 24 May 2019, Nathalie Becquart was appointed, along with four other women and one man, as consultor to the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in the Catholic Church. It was the first time for women to be appointed to that position. [23]
The Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, commonly referred to as the Amazon synod, met in Rome from 6 to 27 October 2019. Pope Francis announced on 15 October 2017 that a special assembly of the Synod of Bishops would work "to identify new paths for the evangelization of God's people in that region", specifically the indigenous peoples who are "often forgotten and without the prospect ...
On 6 February 2021, Pope Francis appointed Nathalie Becquart an undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, [26] making her the first woman to have the right to vote in the Synod of Bishops. [ 27 ] On April 26 2023, Pope Francis announced that women would be allowed to vote at the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops , [ 28 ...
A preparatory session of the synod was held in 2014 to set the stage for the larger 2015 assembly. Called by Pope Francis, it was meant to "continue the reflection and journey of the whole Church, with the participation of leaders of the Episcopate from every corner of the world," [5] and to be the first of "two stages, forming a single organic unity" with the 2015 assembly.
The Pope said the comment after his address opening a pastoral conference of the Diocese of Rome. Audio was recorded by Vatican Radio. Most modern marriages are invalid, Pope says in off-the-cuff ...
After substantial revision in recent months, it was approved March 25 by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication. Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as ...
At the conclusion of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (the "Synod on Synodality") in October 2024, Pope Francis said that he would not be issuing an apostolic exhortation to commend the synod's conclusions to the Church and wider world, stating that the Synodal Document itself was sufficient for this purpose. [8]
Synodality denotes the particular style that qualifies the life and mission of the Catholic Church. The Holy See's International Theological Commission states that synodality, when it concerns the Catholic Church, designates "the specific modus vivendi et operandi of the Church, the People of God, which reveals and gives substance to her being as communion when all her members journey together ...