Pope Francis has launched a three-year implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality to be carried out by “local churches” and concluded with an ecclesial assembly in 2028.
The move signals the first functional development of the “new church” and “new religion” previously heralded by Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, according to Catholic commentator Anthony Stine.
Cardinal Mario Grech, the General Secretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, announced the new “accompaniment process” and post-synodal ecclesial assembly in a letter to “all Bishops and Eparchs,” as well as the Patriarchs of Eastern Catholic Churches,” Vatican News reported.
According to Grech, “local Churches and groups of Churches” will be expected to implement the Final Document of the 16th General Assembly, the Synod on Synodality’s final text, through “discernment and decision-making.” He pushed this as an imperative, Vatican News suggested, because Francis has declared the final document to be “part of the ordinary Magisterium of the Successor of Peter.”
That document reinforces the comments of Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández in saying that “the question of women’s access to diaconal ministry remains open,” despite Catholic teaching infallibly stating that the matter is closed.
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