Presidents of the international groups of Bishops' Conferences at the Synod General Secretariat in November 2022Msgr. Piero Coda, secretary general of the International Theological Commission and member of the Synod Theological Commission, has offered a general overview of the ongoing Continental Stage of the Synod on synodality.
Msgr. Coda noted how the first phase of the synod process just concluded allowed for a"rich harvest" of feedback and ideas, a type of"health checkup of the People of God around the world." He noted that there are challenges and difficulties, but also the joy and hope that abounds in the Church. And, in reading these reports, it must be said that one cannot help but be moved, as I was, because one notices the witness of a People of God that is alive, lively, and journeying. Sometimes cruelly tried by the anguish of a difficult moment of change, of uncertainty - for all of humanity – but committed to living this moment with faith, with love, with hope.
There is also the realization that we must not give in to the temptation of a functionalist reduction of the role of women in the Church, and so that we must not allow ourselves to be crushed by models of participation in ecclesial life and governance that have prevailed up to now, which have a more masculine, not to say macho, imprinting.
Then there is a second goal: to perform this operation of discernment at the continental level, to bring together the paths of the local Churches of the same region - in this case it is the 5 continents, plus the Eastern Churches considered separately, and the Americas are distinguished into North America and South America - so in the end we have 7 continental assemblies. There is some commonality within each region at the cultural and at the spiritual level.
I think the synodal process, when interpreted in the right way, constitutes an extraordinary training ground for ecclesial life. As John Paul II said in it is a concretisation of that school of communion for mission that all ecclesial realities are called to become, in order to live up to what the Spirit is saying to the Church today. It is about learning this art, which is the art of communal discernment.
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