For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission This working document, known as the Instrumentum laboris, was released on June 20, 2023, it will be the basis for the work of the participants in the General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality, which begins in the Vatican in October 2023 and concludes with a second Assembly one year later. A document of some sixty pages that incorporates the experiences of local Churches in every region of the world – Churches that are experiencing wars, climate change, economic systems that produce “exploitation, inequality, and ‘waste’.”
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The document from the North American continental group is rooted in Vatican II and will help manage expectations for the synod process, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Bishop Radoslaw Zmitrowicz discusses his experience alongside his people affected by war, and gives his impressions of the recent European synodal assembly he.