Synod of Bishops in the Catholic Church
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Oct 9, 2026
Gerald MurrayGUEST
I reject this whole thing because this is not how the church has operated in the past.
Gerald MurrayGUEST
Previous gatherings in, of the synod of bishops or other, uh, moments when bishops went together, it's a general assembly.
Gerald MurrayGUEST
You get up and speak, and then you get up and ask questions, and then the leadership will guide the discussion.
Gerald MurrayGUEST
But part of the reason you're there is to tell the leadership things they may not know.
Raymond ArroyoHOST
You know, which, which frankly contradicts everything that, that went before it.
Raymond ArroyoHOST
But on a larger scale, what is being also replaced here is the very governance of the church.
Gerald MurrayGUEST
Yeah, this is a crucial point, and, uh, this is one reason why this synodal office running this meeting is a bad sign, uh, because this is not a meeting of the Synod of Bishops.
Gerald MurrayGUEST
Um, this was supposed to be a meeting of the pre- presidents of bishops conferences.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Pope John Paul II commended especially the praying of the family rosary as an antidote to the many forces which can easily distance family members from one another and even destroy family life.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
in these days of the Synod of Bishops on marriage and its incomparable fruit, the family, which has been surrounded by so much confusion and error of the gravest nature, let us turn especially to the Blessed Virgin Mary, asking her intercession by means of the praying of the Rosary.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Each mystery of the Rosary leads us to a deeper knowledge and love of Christ.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They do not exhaust the mystery of his person, but they surely lead us to know him and to serve him.
Matthew BunsonGUEST
You, uh, are starting with an important question because in some ways, uh, it is, uh, really essential to note what this isn't, and then talk about what it is.
Matthew BunsonGUEST
What this isn't is a gathering of the Synod of Bishops.
Matthew BunsonGUEST
Uh, so in other words, it doesn't have the same weight or gravity in some ways of the synods that we've seen over the last decade, especially under Pope Francis.
Matthew BunsonGUEST
What this is is a meeting that the Holy Father has, uh, convoked, as you noted, about 187 bishops and s- experts and families, uh, coming here, uh, to reflect on the 10th anniversary of what we know is a somewhat controversial document, uh, called Amoris laetitia.
Leo XIVSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Allow me to begin by recalling the long and fruitful synodal and missionary journey that the Church has made in relation to marriage and the family, a journey that we are called to continue.
Leo XIVSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The family has always held an important place in the pastoral concern of the successor of Peter and of the bishops who assist him through their participation in the Synod of Bishops.
Leo XIVSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[clears throat] The Synod of nineteen eighty took up a desire already expressed by Pope John Paul I during his brief pontificate, eventually leading to Saint John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation, Familiaris Consortio.
Leo XIVSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
At the beginning of his own pontificate, Pope Francis once again placed the family at the heart of a synodal process, recognizing the need to continue the Church’s discernment in the face of profound changes affecting an area so closely linked to her mission in the world today.
Colleen DulleHOST
He's written two biographies of Pope Francis and then co-wrote a book called Let Us Dream with Pope Francis.
Colleen DulleHOST
Austin is a fellow at Campion Hall at the University of Oxford, and he was really involved in covering also the Synods of Bishops on the Family in 2014 and 2015.
Colleen DulleHOST
So I'm really grateful to be joined by both of you today because you have that conversation.
Colleen DulleHOST
kind of knowledge of what was happening then that I was not following so closely when I was, well, I won't say how old I was during those.
Colleen DulleHOST
It's before the first session of the Synod on the Family.
Colleen DulleHOST
Francis was recently elected.
Colleen DulleHOST
He had floated this idea of maybe revamping the Synods of Bishops as a means for better communal discernment.
Colleen DulleHOST
What was happening in this period?
Gerald MurrayPANELIST
Yeah, no, this is a whole confusion of roles.
Gerald MurrayPANELIST
And, you know, it goes back to what Pope Francis did when he had, uh, p- put lay women and, and religious women on the Synod of Bishops because this, you know [laughs]
Raymond ArroyoHOST
Mm-hmm.
Gerald MurrayPANELIST
And then they had to, they dropped the word of Bishops.
Gerald MurrayPANELIST
They just call it the Synod these days.
Gerald MurrayPANELIST
Uh, because the Synod of Bishops was established so that by Pope Paul VI following Vatican II, so that the Roman Pontiff could co- cooperate with and gain the insights of the shepherds of the church throughout the world.
Gerald MurrayPANELIST
So a representative group were picked, but they were all shepherds because they were all enjoying the Episcopal office in the church.
Raymond ArroyoHOST
Mm-hmm.
Larry ChappHOST
He was professor of dogmatic theology of marriage and the family at the Pontifical Institute John Paul II in Rome, and he was vice president there between 2010 and 2019.
Larry ChappHOST
He was appointed by Pope Francis as consulter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, consulter to the Secretary to the Synod of Bishops, and consulter to the Dicastery for the Laity.
Larry ChappHOST
family and life, and so on.
Larry ChappHOST
That's part of the Dicastria for the Laity.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
The document was signed by St. Pope John Paul II on September 14th in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
It was the outcome of the first special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, which was held in the Vatican from April 10th to May 8th, 1994.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
The document outlined the mission, challenges, and pastoral priorities of the Catholic Church in Africa as a family of God, stressing five main areas for the mission of the Church as deepening faith and sharing the message of Christ, expressing the Christian faith through local African cultural values and traditions.
Johnny Baptist TumusimeHOST
Promoting ecumenical and interreligious relations, particularly with Islam and traditional religions; addressing poverty, conflict, corruption; and working as an instrument of reconciliation; and utilizing modern media effectively for evangelization and human promotion.