Vatican Releases Working Document to Guide October Synod Meeting

The General Secretariat for the Synod at the Vatican has published a document in preparation for the second session of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality that will be held in the Vatican in October. The 30-page text, commonly referred to as an instrumentum laboris (working tool), was presented at a Vatican press conference on July 9 by Cardinals Mario Grech and Jean-Claude Hollerich, the general secretary and relator general of the synod, respectively.