Rome Newsroom, Oct 27, 2022 / 12:50 pm
The Holy Spirit is at work in the latest document of the Synod on Synodality, presenters said Thursday at a press conference on the guiding text for the next stage of the synod’s discussions.
The document, or “synthesis of the syntheses,” Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., said, “is therefore not a writing emerging out of theological writings. It is the fruit of the lived synodality, the lived theology, a dimension of the life in the Church.”
“And, what is very beautiful, we were able to notice that the Holy Spirit is at work,” he said at an Oct. 27 presentation of the 44-page working document that will guide the next stage of synod discussions: the Continental Assemblies to be held between January and March 2023.
Hollerich, who has one of the most important positions in the Synod on Synodality as relator general, spoke at the press conference via video call from Japan.