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Vatican offers details on how synod will work, media access

After Pope Francis told journalists aboard his flight from Mongolia that the discussions at the assembly of the Synod of Bishops will not be open to the public or to reporters to "safeguard the synodal climate," the Vatican held a news conference to tell reporters what to expect.
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Head of Vatican Synod office: ‘Let us trust in our people’

The head of the Vatican's synod office says that when it comes to hot-button issues such as the reception of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics and the blessing of same-sex couples, discussion cannot be limited to doctrinal concerns, but must also include pastoral considerations.
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Cardinal Grech on drafting the first global synod synthesis—and what’s in store for phase 2

Even though the first phase of the Catholic Church’s two-year-long Synod on Synodality convened by Pope Francis only ended in mid-August, “We can already see the fruits of the synodal process,” Cardinal Mario Grech, the general secretary of the synod, told America’s Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell, in an exclusive interview conducted for America’s “Inside the Vatican” podcast...
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#ForASynodalChurch Newsletter

View the newsletter from the General Secretariat of the Synod.
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