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Title: 'For a Synodal Church'
Subtitle: Equipping the Catholic Church on Her Way into the Third Millennium
Author(s): MAYER, Annemarie C.
Journal: Louvain Studies
Volume: 43    Issue: 3   Date: 2020   
Pages: 205-214
DOI: 10.2143/LS.43.3.3288704

Abstract :
Partly already with an eye to the 2022 Synod of Bishops, this thematic issue of Louvain Studies focuses on the central idea of synodality. All the contributions collected here attempt a stocktaking exercise en route, addressing – with parrhesia (boldness), as Pope Francis recommends in Evangelii Gaudium no. 259 – which breakthroughs have been achieved, what progress has been made, yet also which impasses have been reached and which barriers have been encountered on the path to being a synodal church. This editorial article introduces the overall topic and assesses the relation and relevance of the individual contributions to the general topic of this thematic issue.

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