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Pope Francis approves new constitution for Synod of Bishops HomeNEWS LocalNationalInternationalObituaries FEATURES NW StoriesLatest IssuePast Issues SPIRITUALITY Ask Father/BishopCatholic VoicesDaily ReadingsSaints of the Month LIVING Food & HomeMarriage & ParentingMoney & StewardshipSports VOICES ArchbishopBishopCommentaryBlog ESPAÑOL Del ArzobispoDel ObispoNoticias/OpiniónPreguntasSantos del Mes CULTURE BooksCalendarCrosswordMovies & TV MULTIMEDIA VideosAudioPhotos Classifieds HomeNEWS— Local— National— International— ObituariesFEATURES— NW Stories— Latest Issue— Past IssuesSPIRITUALITY— Ask Father/Bishop— Catholic Voices— Daily Readings— Saints of the MonthLIVING— Food & Home— Marriage & Parenting— Money & Stewardship— SportsVOICES— Archbishop— Bishop— Commentary— BlogESPAÑOL— Del Arzobispo— Del Obispo— Noticias/Opinión— Preguntas— Santos del MesCULTURE— Books— Calendar— Crossword— Movies & TVMULTIMEDIA— Videos— Audio— PhotosClassifieds Home NEWS International Pope Francis approves new constitution for Synod of Bishops Pope Francis approves new constitution for Synod of Bishops September 18, 2018 Written by Hannah Brockhaus, CNA Published in International A meeting of bishops in Rome, May 2018. Photo: CNA VATICAN CITY – In a new theological constitution, Pope Francis has reformed the Synod of Bishops, creating a mechanism for the assembly’s final documents to be included in official denomination teaching. Episcopalis Communio, promulgated by the pope on September 15, establishes that the final document of a synod assembly, drafted and tried by a special commission, can be considered part of the ordinary magisterium — that is, the official teaching of the denomination — if it receives a particular level of papal approval. The constitution does not require the publication of a post-synodal papal document to make its conclusions authoritative, though these have traditionally followed synodal sessions. The most recent synod, which was held on the theme of the family, was followed by the 2016 post-synodal theological exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, unstipulated secretary of the Synod of Bishops, presented the new constitution on September 18. Baldisseri told journalists Tuesday that the pope may wish to publish a document of his own pursuit October’s synod on young people, but that the new norms indulge him to forego it in favor of raising the synod’s final document as his own. Should Francis decide to prefer the final synodal document, it would be published with his signature and those of the members of the synod. The norms provide for a process similar to that followed during the 2015 synod on the family — by which a legation creates the final synodal document surpassing it is put surpassing the members of the synod for a vote. This legation is well-balanced of the relator unstipulated and unstipulated secretary of the particular session of the synod, the secretary unstipulated of the synod’s permanent secretariat — currently Cardinal Baldisseri — and other members elected by the synod itself. To these, the pope may moreover add his own personal appointees Regarding how the final document is to be tried by the membership, Episcopalis Communio refers when to the current “particular law.” Accordingly, individual provisions to be unexplored in the final document will still require the clearance of two-thirds of the synod’s members, while a simple majority suffices to reject an item. The new constitution does, however, urge the synod fathers to seek “moral unanimity” whenever possible. Once the final document has been prepared and voted on, it is presented to the pope for his clearance and publication. At this point, the pope can segregate to grant a particular kind of clearance to the document, tabbed “in forma specifica” in weltanschauung law, by which it would wilt an act of the pope and part of the ordinary papal magisterium. Speaking at a printing priming in Rome, Cardinal Baldisseri said that the process of receiving this specific papal clearance does not require a strictly judicial standard, or depend upon a particular margin of clearance by the synod fathers.  Quoting St. John Paul II, the new constitution says that while the synod “normally has a merely consultative function,” this “does not diminish its importance.” Rather, the vote of the synod fathers, “if morally unanimous, has an ecclesial quality that overcomes the merely formal speciality of the consultative vote.” This, Baldisseri explained, is increasingly important that a specific margin of voting. Other sections of the constitution substantially underpin recent synodal processes and regulations, including on the synod’s sonnet and structure, which members have voting rights, and the three unshared synodal phases of preparation, turnout and implementation. In the preparatory phase, information on the spoken theme of the synod is gathered through study commissions, local consultations conducted through the diocesan bishops, and a pre-synod meeting, if one is convoked. The new norms moreover provide the option for such pre-synodal meetings to be held at a regional level. The second phase is the very turnout of the synodal fathers and other members, while the third phase is the implementation of the synod’s conclusions in the particular churches. Episcopalis Communio underlines the importance of bishops listening to the voice of lay Catholics, saying that “the Synod of Bishops must increasingly wilt a privileged instrument for listening to the People of God.” “Although in its sonnet [the Synod] appears as an substantially episcopal organism, the Synod does not therefore live separate from the rest of the faithful. On the contrary, it is a suitable instrument to requite voice to the whole People of God precisely through the Bishops, constituted by God as ‘authentic guardians, interpreters and witnesses of the faith of the whole Church,’” the document states. This principle is recognized in the canonical norms of the constitution itself. Article 7 of Episcopalis Communio states that the right of the true-blue to send their own contributions for the synod directly to the secretary unstipulated “remains integral” to the process. The Synod of Bishops acts as a temporary and occasional newsy soul to the pope on issues of pastoral importance to the Catholic Church. It was established by Pope Paul VI with the motu proprio Apostolica Sollicitudo in 1965. While the synod itself is a temporary soul tabbed into stuff by the pope, it has a permanent unstipulated secretariat in the Roman Curia. There are three types of synod assemblies a pope can call: ordinary, no-go and special. Next month’s meeting will be an no-go assembly, as was 2014’s synod on the family. A special turnout is usually convoked to discuss an issue related to a particular geographical region, such as the upcoming special turnout on the Amazon, which will take place in October 2019. 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