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(OSV News) — The global Synod on Synodality has been two years in the making, but even as the synod’s universal stage in Rome is underway, the synod’s public discussions are revealing how this process is starting to free the church to realize the vision of a missionary church Pope Francis advanced at the very beginning of his pontificate with the publication of “Evangelii Gaudium.”
“Evangelii Gaudium” was not simply Pope Francis’ vision; the apostolic exhortation came out of Pope Benedict XVI’s 2012 Synod of Bishops on the “New Evangelization” — a term coined by his predecessor, St. John Paul II, for the church’s missionary renewal following the Second Vatican Council.
Without a doubt, the “new evangelization” has made uneven progress in the whole church. Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council, the council’s teaching, and the post-Vatican II raft of papal teachings and proposals following other synods of bishops, continue to “trickle down” — a process that leaves most of this tremendous amount of effort relegated to a shelf or the cloud rather than successfully incarnated in the life of a local church.
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“Evangelii Gaudium” was not simply Pope Francis’ vision; the apostolic exhortation came out of Pope Benedict XVI’s 2012 Synod of Bishops on the “New Evangelization” — a term coined by his predecessor, St. John Paul II, for the church’s missionary renewal following the Second Vatican Council.
Without a doubt, the “new evangelization” has made uneven progress in the whole church. Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council, the council’s teaching, and the post-Vatican II raft of papal teachings and proposals following other synods of bishops, continue to “trickle down” — a process that leaves most of this tremendous amount of effort relegated to a shelf or the cloud rather than successfully incarnated in the life of a local church.
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Testimonies give insight into how Synod on Synodality can realize pope's vision for Church
The global Synod on Synodality has been two years in the making, but even as the synod's universal stage in Rome is underway, the synod's public discussions are revealing how this process is starting to free the church to realize the vision of a missionary church Pope Francis advanced at the...
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