The cardinal expects the synod’s final document to highlight the different levels of “responsibility towards Mother Earth, towards the natural environment, and on this we are all in agreement. What is said of Amazonia is also true of the Congo basin.”
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From Guyana to Rome, the Synod has proved to be a rich place of encounter
Ms. Casimero described the synod process as a place where Catholics with differences are “coming together” and “able to listen to one another” while also “trying to see and understand from the other person’s point of view.”
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Cardinal Hollerich: Amazon synod should lead to ‘ecological conversion’
The polyglot Jesuit said he was struck most by “the violence the indigenous people have to experience”: “It’s violence against the rainforest and at the same time violence against the ethnic groups.”
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Cardinal Gracias: ‘We must give answers to the issues that have emerged at the synod’
The Indian cardinal described his experience during the synod so far as an “eye-opener,” allowing him to discover connections to what indigenous communities in his native land are experiencing.
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Thieves steal wood carvings used at synod prayer and throw them in the river
Video of the pre-dawn theft from the Santa Maria in Traspontina church was shared and celebrated on conservative social media on Oct. 21. The Vatican’s communications czar, Paolo Ruffini, termed it a “stunt” that violated the idea of dialogue.
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Amazon Synod is a place of discernment that ‘must leave space for the Spirit’
The synod is “not a discussion, not a parliament,” but there is “a spiritual dynamic,” said Giacomo Costa, S.J., the synod’s secretary for information, at a Vatican press briefing on Oct. 16. The biblical image, he said, is “the blind man who throws away his cloak to go to God,” and for the synod it means “to leave behind the safety of your arguments.”
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Cardinal Barreto: The Amazon synod is the child of ‘Laudato Si”
“The synod is already a success by the very fact that it is happening,” said the Peruvian Jesuit, one of the president delegates of the Synod for the Amazon.
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The Amazon synod is halfway over. Here’s what we know so far.
As the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon reaches its halfway point, leaders of indigenous communities are speaking with passion about what is at stake for their communities and their hopes for this synod.
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Pope Francis: Food is becoming an avenue of personal destruction
Pope Francis said, “We must come to realize that what we are accumulating and wasting is the bread of the poor.”
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Pope Francis appoints cybersecurity expert to head Vatican Security Services
He takes over from Commander Giani, who resigned yesterday after taking “objective” but not “subjective” responsibility for the leaking to an Italian journalist of a reserved notice informing Vatican security personnel that five employees had been suspended from their work “as a precautionary measure.”