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Official logo of the synod, English-speaking version . The 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, commonly referred to as the Synod on Synodality, [1] was a Synod of Bishops of the Catholic Church which concluded 27 October 2024 [2] [3] and has as its theme "For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission". [4]
What is the Catholic Church’s most recent synod trying to accomplish?
Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. [11] He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire , and was the host of Catholicism , a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS .
A meeting of a whole synod of bishops is called when a decision is required on a question that only the synod of bishops is authorized to decide, or when the patriarch or major archbishop, with the agreement of the standing synod, judges it to be necessary, or when at least one third of the bishops request that it be held to consider some ...
He proceeds over the entire synod, and can choose to suspend or dissolve the synod if he think it would be prudent to do so (canons 462 §2 and 468 §1). This bishop is obligated to give the texts of all declarations and decrees made during the synod to the Metropolitan and the Episcopal Conference (canon 467).
A preparatory session of the synod was held in 2014 to set the stage for the larger 2015 assembly. Called by Pope Francis, it was meant to "continue the reflection and journey of the whole Church, with the participation of leaders of the Episcopate from every corner of the world," [5] and to be the first of "two stages, forming a single organic unity" with the 2015 assembly.
A synod (/ ˈ s ɪ n ə d /) is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.The word synod comes from the Ancient Greek σύνοδος (synodos) ' assembly, meeting '; the term is analogous with the Latin word concilium ' council '.
Barron isn’t the only Trump bound for university. Last month, Kai Trump, Donald Trump’s granddaughter, said she verbally committed to playing golf at the University of Miami, a top-ranked program.