Synod on Synodality logo / Courtesy USCCBRome Newsroom, Apr 12, 2023 / 09:25 am (CNA).A committee of 22 people this week kicked off the writing process for the Synod on Synodality s working document that will be the blueprint for discussions during the meeting of bishops in October. According to a statement from the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops on April 12, a "group of experts from five continents" is meeting at the Vatican until April 19 "with the aim of starting the reflection that will lead at a later stage to the drafting of the Instrumentum Laboris, the working document for the first session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops."The Instrumentum Laboris, Latin for "working document," frames the discussions of the Synod of Bishops. During a synod, bishops make comments and observations on the working document and meet in small discussion groups to propose changes to the text or to suggest new texts and additi
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