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Pope apologized for not being able to read the catechesis himself Photo: Vatican Media

Dicasteries•Local Church•Pope Francis

Pope Averts Schism in Germany: Full Text of Vatican Letter

The Synodal Council, already banned by the Pope in January 2023, had the mission of constituting itself as a consultative and decision-making body capable of making decisions above the dioceses and thus supplanting the personal authority of each bishop in the entrusted territory. The letter of three cardinals on behalf of the Pope managed to stop what would have been a de facto schism or at least a serious act of disobedience.

Dicasteries•Pope Francis

Pope establishes study groups between dicasteries and Synod Secretariat to study issues raised in first part of synod on synodality

The Pontiff established that «the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia collaborate, «according to their respective specific competencies, in the activity of the General Secretariat of the Synod,» by forming study groups that will initiate, with a synodal method, the in-depth study of some of the themes that emerged from the First Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.