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In the wake of the announcement of the new composition of the Synod of Bishops, 64-year-old Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg and relator general of the upcoming assembly, takes stock of the work in an interview with Vatican media.
The Church has always been synodal. St John Chrysostom says that Synod and Church are synonymous... The path we are on, the involvement of the whole people of God, shows that the Holy Spirit is leading us in such a way as to put into practice what the Second Vatican Council, and in particular the ConstitutionSo at the centre of the next General Assembly is this way of being Church, and not individual topics?Yes, and I believe this is also a response to the sickness of our time.
And it is also good for people to go and listen to the bishops, because bishops have not only the role of listening but also the role of offering answers and being shepherds of the people. So it is not a matter of saying: ‘Here is this problem, there are these two positions, whoever has the majority wins and it will be done like this’. Because that destroys the Church. We do not want that. We must walk together as a Church community.When we walk, Christ is the centre. There are people on the right, on the left, there are those who walk further ahead, there are those who take longer and stay behind: it is normal when we walk together.
We also saw the differences: for example, in most of the continental stages everyone loved the image of the tent. In Africa, however, they did not, because the tent for them is the tent of refugees, it is the tent of misery, of poverty, and they prefer the image of the family of God. They explain that the tent cannot be enlarged, it tears, while the family can be enlarged.
But there is also the ‘left-wing’ temptation, according to which all issues considered important in the Church must be discussed at the Synod. But this is not possible. The Synod has a title and this title is a task for us: synodality, communion, participation, mission. The Synod will focus on this, not on all the other topics. I do not dispute the importance of the other themes, which we will bring to the Holy Father, so that he can reflect on them in the way he chooses.
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