Council reviews worldwide input for Family Synod document

Pope Francis and members of the council of the Synod of Bishops met to review input from around the world for October’s Synod on the Family and made their final suggestions for the synod’s working document.

Jun 04, 2015

VATICAN: Pope Francis and members of the council of the Synod of Bishops met to review input from around the world for October’s Synod on the Family and made their final suggestions for the synod’s working document.

The office of the synod’s general secretary will incorporate the suggestions and have the document translated, said a statement issued after the meeting.

“The publication will take place in a few weeks,” it said.

As the council was meeting with the Pope, the presidents of the bishops’ conferences of Germany, France and Switzerland organized a study day in Rome. According to a press release from the German Bishops’ Conference, the meeting brought together about 50 bishops, theologians, Curia officials and a few journalists to discuss issues likely to be raised at the synod.

Pope Francis has convoked the Synod of Bishops on the family for Oct. 4-25; it is to be the conclusion of a process that included a discussion within the College of Cardinals and an extraordinary Synod of Bishops last October.

Much of the media attention focused on the issue of outreach to divorced Catholics, including discussion about the possibility of readmitting to Communion those who have married civilly without obtaining an annulment. The needs of poor families, the impact of migration on families, marriage preparation courses and outreach to gay Catholics were also topics at the extraordinary synod in 2014. --CNS

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