The Vatican’s synod office has issued guidelines for how to implement the three-year implementation phase of the multi-year Synod on Synodality, emphasizing that it is a manner of “growing in a new way of being Church.”
how the Catholic Church at the local level ought to continue with Pope Francis’ multi-year Synod on Synodality. It comes amid much continued speculation about how new Pope Leo XIV will respond to the synod and what line he might take with it.
The document is intended to be read alongside, and indeed formed by, the final document from the synod’s October 2024 session in Rome. That meeting served as the culmination of the synod, which began in the autumn of 2021.
In March, from his hospital room, Pope Francis approved a three-year extension to the synod by virtue of the “implementation phase,” with a focus on the local churches, and with a concluding event of an ecclesial assembly in Rome in 2028.
Speaking at the time, the Secretary General of the Synod’s General Secretariat – Cardinal Mario Grech – said the new three-year stage was “to make exchanges and dialogue between Churches and within the Church concrete.”
Now in his new document, certain themes and suggestions are presented for the “local churches” to be able to live the new synodal style, as promoted by the Vatican. Ultimately, the new document is described as providing the plan on how to bring into effect this new manner of “being Church” in preparation for the October 2028 ecclesial assembly.
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