“A synodal Church needs its parish priests,” declared the pope, adding that without their voices, the Church will “never be able to learn how to walk together and to set out on the path of synodality.”
Sr. Nathalie Becquart, the highest-ranking woman in the general secretariat of Synod of Bishops, stressed that without parish priests embracing a synodal path, fostering a truly synodal Church will be difficult.
“The most important is what you are doing and what you are living at the grassroots,” said Becquart, who serves as an undersecretary for the Church’s ongoing Synod on Synodality.
“The Church is, first of all, there in all your dioceses and parishes… so that’s where synodality has to continue,” she said.
The French missionary was speaking at the National Meeting of Parish Priests for the Synod, held in Manila from July 29 to Aug. 1, to address the question on how to be a local synodal Church on mission.
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