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Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops pray before a working session in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 26, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Safeguarding will benefit from a synodal church, theologian says

‘A more synodal church ‘‘can only be possible if we have true and authentic and deep formation that is rooted in conversation in the Spirit’’

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Read more about the article Synod assembly calls on everyone to ‘concretely participate’ in synodality
Portuguese-speaking members of the assembly of the Synod pose for a group photo before a working session in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 26, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Synod assembly calls on everyone to ‘concretely participate’ in synodality

‘For the Church’s vocation is to proclaim the Gospel not by focusing on itself, but by placing itself at the service of the infinite love with which God loved the world.’

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Read more about the article Listen to, trust the lay faithful, pope tells synod members
Pope Francis prays with participants in the assembly of the Synod of Bishops before making a rare speech to the gathering Oct. 25, 2023, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Listen to, trust the lay faithful, pope tells synod members

‘I like to think of the Church as the simple and humble people who walk in the presence of the Lord – the faithful people of God’

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Read more about the article Synod prays warring nations will learn to listen, respect each other
Cardinal Louis Sako, the Iraq-based patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, and Iraqi Sister Caroline Saheed Jarjis, a member of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the rosary for peace with members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 25, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Synod prays warring nations will learn to listen, respect each other

‘During this synod, we have heard the cry of so many people who are victims, poor and oppressed by the tragedies unfolding in many of the countries we come from’

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