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Synod on synodality

Leo and the synod’s canonical team

How will the pope respond to controversial new proposals?

JD Flynn
Oct 01, 2026
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When the Vatican’s synod on synodality concluded in 2024 — if synods can ever really come to an end — among the remaining tasks to be taken up in Rome was a commission to suggest changes to the Code of Canon Law occasioned by the Church’s experience of universal synodality.

The opening assembly of the Synod bishops 1 and Pope Francis in Vatican City on Oct 5 2015 Credit LOsservatore Romano CNA 10 5 15
Bishops during the Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. …

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