09/07/2025 08:30
- 12:00
HALL: Personalentwicklung Seminar Room
Proponent:
Faggioli M.,
Froehle B.
Chair:
Bobrowicz R.
Speaker:
Anitha K.,
Berkmann B.,
Cornish S.,
Klug F.,
Van Rompaey J.
When the Second Assembly of the Synod of Bishops concluded in October 2024, the "synodal process" opened a phase of reception within Global Catholicism. It also opened expectations for the work of the commissions created for issues from the Synod. This call invites papers on themes in the Final Document (https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/news/2024-10-26_final-document/ENG---Documento-finale.pdf). Examples include the role of women in the Catholic Church (60) and the relationship between synodality and canon law (92-94). We also invite papers on themes discussed but not mentioned, such as LGBTQ Catholics in the Church. We welcome papers on local responses, such as that of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) to Fiducia Supplicans, published during the intersession. What new ways of relating, juridical or practical, are emerging within Global Catholicism in the third millennium? What impact will theologies and theories of synodality have (or not) on lived Catholicism in various parts of the world? What reforms might best address the complex challenges ahead? How can they meet the needs of local Catholic communities in all their diversity? How can they bridge the divides exacerbated by polarization? We seek papers that open a post-synodal conversation on ecclesial order(s) in the third millennium.