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VATICAN—Pope Francis opened the Synod on Synodality’s three-week assembly last Wednesday with a call to remember that the Church exists to bring Jesus to the world and should face today’s challenges with a gaze fixed on God rather than “political calculations or ideological battles.” Speaking in Saint Peter’s Square for the synod’s opening Mass on
Pope Francis opened the three-week assembly on Wednesday with a call to remember that the Church exists to bring Jesus to the world.
At the opening of the General Assembly of the Synod, Pope Francis warned against a vision made up of “human strategies, political calculations or ideological battles.”
Pope Francis says the Holy Spirit often takes apart our expectations in order to create something new, which goes beyond our expectations or worries.
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The three-week assembly of bishops and laypersons could unfold as one of the key events in Pope Francis’s papacy