Released Sept. 19 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the report summarizes the concerns, hopes, pains and desires voiced by an estimated 700,000 participants who joined thousands of listening sessions and other events during the diocesan phase in the lead-up to the Synod of Bishops on synodality in October 2023.
The course for new bishops was sponsored by the dicasteries for Bishops, for Evangelization and for Eastern Churches.
“For the first time in my life, I didn’t know where to run because it’s not enough to run. You have to know where to go,” Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said in an interview with Vatican News published Sept. 17.
The Gospel of Luke’s description of what Mary did after learning she would become the mother of Jesus — “Mary arose and went with haste” to Elizabeth — is the theme Pope Francis chose for two WYD celebrations: on a local level Nov. 20, the feast of Christ the King, and for the world gathering in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 1-6, 2023.
The work of the Curia, he said, is “organically related to the College of Bishops and individual bishops, as well as to episcopal conferences and their regional and continental groupings, and the hierarchical structures of the Eastern churches.
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading: Am 8:4-7
Second reading: 1 Tm 2:1-8
Gospel: Lk 16:1-13
During her loneliest moments, Sister Suellen prayed for “peaceful patience,” because she saw no end in sight.
In his formal talk to the congress, Pope Francis said that “authentic religiosity” is needed to fight fundamentalism and extremism in religion and to show the world that it has no reason to distrust or have “contempt for religion as if it were a destabilizing force in modern society.”
