The Vatican’s synod office has announced the creation of 10 study groups to explore topics raised during the last session of the synod:
- Some aspects of the relationship between the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Latin Church. (SR 6)
- Listening to the Cry of the Poor (SR 4 and 16)
- The mission in the digital environment. (SR 17)
- The revision of the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis in a missionary synodal perspective. (SR 11)
- Some theological and canonical matters regarding specific ministerial forms. (SR 8 and 9)
- The revision, in a synodal missionary perspective of the documents touching on the relationship between Bishops, consecrated life, and ecclesial associations. (SR 10)
- Some aspects of the person and ministry of the Bishop (criteria for selecting candidates to Episcopacy, judicial function of the Bishops, nature and course of ad limina Apostolorum visits) from a missionary synodal perspective. (SR 12 and 13)
- The role of Papal Representatives in a missionary synodal perspective. (SR 13)
- Theological criteria and synodal methodologies for shared discernment of controversial doctrinal, pastoral, and ethical issues. (SR 15)
- The reception of the fruits of the ecumenical journey in ecclesial practices. (SR 7)
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