Cardinal Tobin reflects on first week of Synod
At the close of the first week of the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome, Cardinal Tobin shares a video message reflecting on a week marked by prayer, listening, and dialogue.
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The Instrumentum Laboris
2024
- English Instrumentum Laboris
- Italian Instrumentum Laboris
- Portuguese Instrumentum Laboris
- Spanish Instrumentum Laboris
2023
- English Instrumentum Laboris (June 2023)
- Spanish Instrumentum Laboris
- French Instrumentum Laboris
- Italian Instrumentum Laboris
- Polish Instrumentum Laboris
- Portuguese Instrumentum Laboris
- Working Document for the Continental Stage Enlarge Your Tent October 2022 (English)
- Working Document for the Continental Stage (Spanish)
- Synod Preparatory Document (September 2021)
- Vademecum: Handbook for Listening and Discernment in Local Churches (September 2021)
- International Theological Commission (ITC) Synodality In The Life And Mission Of The Church (March 2018)
- Biblical Resources for Synodality
- North American Continental Stage Report from US and Canada (English) April 2023
- North American Continental Stage Report from US and Canada (French)
- North American Continental Stage Report from US and Canada (Spanish)
- United States National Synthesis (English) September 2022
- United States National Synthesis (Spanish) September 2022
- General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops news coverage
- Catechetical Resources Synod
- Catholic Schools & Universities Synod Listening
- Synod Information Session Guide
- Synod Listening Session Guide
- Cardinal Tobin’s Messages
- Jersey Catholic articles about the Synod
- 2022 Updates
- 2021 Updates
- Synod on Synodality: Gathering and Listening to Diverse Voices
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Archdiocese of Newark Synod Report
Archdiocesan multilingual materials
Vatican Synod Social Media
Background information
On May 21, 2021, Pope Francis surprised the Church by announcing that the Synod of Bishops, postponed due to the pandemic, will be preceded by a synodal process that includes “listening to all of the baptized” in every local diocese as the bishops, along with laity and religious, gather in 2023 and 2024.
The Archdiocese of Newark has joined dioceses throughout the world in a three-year process of listening to and walking with its parishioners. Two significant questions posed by Pope Francis are “How are we walking together as a Church?” and “What is the Holy Spirit asking of the Church in the 21st Century?”
Parishes of the Archdiocese prayed and discerned about their experience and ways the Holy Spirit is asking the Church to spread the Gospel message of Jesus today.
Pope Francis continues to invite the entire Church and those on the peripheries to reflect on a theme that is decisive for its life and mission as he says. “It is precisely this path of synodality which God expects of the Church of the third millennium.”