Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli as Undersecretary of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches Photo: Vatican News

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.