One Family | Journeying Together
Read the full diocesan synod synthesis
Region IX comprises the 15 dioceses in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri: read the Region IX Synod Report
USCCB national synthesis: read the report (September 19, 2022)
Synthesis Report of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops: read the report. (October 28, 2023)
Synod Interim Session synthesis from diocesan listening sessions held Saturday: read the summary (March 2, 2024)
Synod Interim Session report for Region IX: read the report (April 2024)
National synthesis for the Synod Interim Session: read the report (May 2024)
For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission
Final document
(November 24, 2024)
What is a synod?
Synod is an ancient and venerable word that indicates the path along which the People of God walk together.
Synodality denotes the particular style that qualifies the life and mission of the Church, expressing her nature as the People of God journeying together and gathering in assembly, summoned by the Lord Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to proclaim the Gospel.
What is the objective of this synod?
While recent synods have examined themes such as the new evangelization, the family, young people, and the Amazon, the present Synod focuses on the topic of synodality itself.
The objective of the current Synod is:
- To listen, as the entire People of God, to what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church… especially to those at the margins.
- Foster a lived experience of discernment, participation, and co-responsibility, where a diversity of gifts is brought together for the Church’s mission in the world.
- To inspire people to dream about the Church we are called to be
- To make people’s hopes flourish
- To stimulate trust
- To bind up wounds
- To weave new and deeper relationships
- To learn from one another
- To build bridges
- To enlighten minds
- To warm hearts
- To restore strength to our hands for our common mission
The Synodal Process is not only a series of exercises that start and stop, but rather a journey of growing authentically towards the communion and mission that God call the Church to live out in the third millennium.
One Family, Journeying Together
Listen to Bishop Johnston’s homily from the opening Mass on October 17, 2021:
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