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In the wake of the announcement of the new composition of the Synod of Bishops, 64-year-old Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg and relator general of the upcoming assembly, takes stock of the work in an interview with Vatican media.
The Church has always been synodal. St John Chrysostom says that Synod and Church are synonymous...
As a bishop, I see that when I listen I sometimes change my mind, and that is good for me. My diocese is not large: my country has 660,000 inhabitants, but the bishop has an entourage of people who have more or less studied the same things, sometimes in the same places, with the same professors. They think in the same way. There is evidence that is not obvious to every member of the people of God. In that sense it is good to have this openness, to know how to listen.
Rather, synodality is the horizon in which the bishops’ collegiality and the Pope’s primacy are exercised, to seek God's will together. Sometimes it seems, however, that we are busy or preoccupied with something else, with structures and strategies… I realised at that moment that we cannot present just one image, but several images that speak to the different religious cultures of our peoples. And I am sure that those who love the image of the tent can learn something from the image of the family of God, and vice versa. It was important to attend the continental conferences, I did so not to speak, not to influence, but to listen, to realise the diversity that is experienced. We will have to do this at the Synod of Bishops.
I have noticed two temptations. The first is to assimilate everything into the old patterns. It is the temptation that I conveniently call ‘right-wing’, which says: we want to do what we have always done, we do not really want to worry about something new.
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