Synod on Synodality logo / Courtesy USCCB
St. Louis, Mo., Feb 15, 2023 / 16:05 pm (CNA).
Seventeen delegates from the U.S. and Canada are on a writing retreat as part of the Synod on Synodality — a multiyear worldwide undertaking set in motion .
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, archbishop of Luxembourg, (left) and Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 09:18 am (CNA).
Cardinals organizing the Synod on Synodality .
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, archbishop of Luxembourg, (left) and Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the Synod of Bishops / Daniel Ibáñez/CNARome Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 09:18 am (CNA).Cardinals organizing the Synod on Synodality have written a letter to all of the world s bishops sharing urgent considerations for the Continental Assemblies, seven of which are set to take place by the end of March.In the letter published by the Vatican on Jan. 30, Cardinal Mario Grech and Cardinal Jean Claude Hollerich stressed that the Synod of Bishops is not meant "to address all the issues being debated in the Church.""There are in fact some who presume to already know what the conclusions of the synodal assembly will be. Others would like to impose an agenda on the synod, with the intention of steering the discussion and determining its outcome," the cardinals wrote."However, the theme that the pope has assigned to the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Syn