The Dicastery for Communication in the Synodal Path of the "Outgoing Church"

Abstract

Reaching the conclusion of a long collegial journey, today synodality is indicated as the 'usual' working method for the Roman Curia, a style already in place, but to be developed and implemented over time. This path, according to the Pope's intentions, should prove to be a true revision of the Church's identity, configuration and mission, and not just of some of its operational elements. From it would derive the hermeneutics for a reform in a synodal key, which finds its foundation in the commitment to an essential co-responsibility, not only auxiliary or subsidiary, where synodality is presented as an operational and organic principle. The theme of synodality is linked to the missionary nature of the Church ad extra, and it is particularly evident in Praedicate Evangelium. The challenge of a Church in transition capable of recovering the dynamics proper to the traditio through its heterogeneity in the communion of service, looms particularly large for the Dicastery for Communication.