Pope Francis spoke this Saturday at the end of the second session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.
These are 10 notable phrases from what he said in the Paul VI Hall of the Vatican regarding the work carried out and the final document of the Synod of Synodality:
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1. “This is not about the classic way of infinitely postponing decisions. It is what corresponds to the synodal style… listening, convening, discerning, deciding and evaluating.”
2. “What we have experienced is a gift that we cannot keep only for ourselves… it gives us the courage to witness that it is possible to walk together in diversity, without condemning each other”
3. “Rigidity is a sin, it is a sin that sometimes enters clerics, consecrated men, and consecrated women.”
4. “I do not intend to publish an ‘apostolic exhortation’, what has been approved is enough.”
5. “The synodal Church for mission now needs the words shared to be accompanied by actions.”
6. “The Bishop of Rome… needs to put listening into practice, in fact, he wants to do it, to be able to respond to the Word that repeats to him every day: ‘Confirm your brothers and your sisters… Feed my sheep.’
7. “How much harm the women and men of the Church do when they put up walls, how much harm! Everyone, everyone. We must not behave like “dispensers of grace” who appropriate the treasure by tying the hands of the merciful God.”
8. “In this time of wars, we must be witnesses of peace, also learning to give real shape to the coexistence of differences”
9. “On some aspects of the life of the Church indicated in the Document… time is needed in order to reach options that involve the entire Church.”
10. “The text, without the testimony of the experience carried out, would lose much of its value.”
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