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Pope Francis waves to the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square to hear his Angelus address on Sunday, June 9, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jun 11, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA).The Vatican will publish a study document on papal primacy and ecumenism on Thursday that will contain proposals "for a renewed exercise of the bishop of Rome s ministry of unity" recognized by all Christians.The document, titled "The Bishop of Rome: Primacy and Synodality in Ecumenical Dialogue and Responses to the Encyclical Ut Unum Sint," will be released on June 13 with the approval of Pope Francis. The Vatican s Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity put together the study document to summarize the ecumenical dialogue that has occurred on the question of papal primacy and synodality in the past 30 years.In particular, the document includes responses by different Christian communities to Pope John Paul II s 1995 encyclical on Christian unity, Ut Unum Sint ("T
Speaking at a conference about the synod in Knock, County Mayo, Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, said that “Fiducia Supplicans,” will not affect the forthcoming second session of the Synod on Synodality.
If anyone still thinks that it is possible to just wait for the end of papacy of Francis and that with a new pope the matters of the Church will turn out well, I would inform them,