Non-diocesan Catholic groups submit their own synod reports to the US bishops
Inmates, college students, climate activists, LGBTQ people, clergy sex abuse survivors, health care professionals, church reform advocates and older Catholics are among those who have participated in their own listening sessions for the grassroots consultation that has been held ahead of the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome.
In all, 110 non-diocesan Catholic groups — universities, advocacy nonprofits, religious congregations, ministries and private associations of individuals, among others — submitted their own synodal "synthesis" reports this year to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Julia McStravog, a consultant helping to coordinate the bishops' synodal work. Those groups' reports were to be synthesized along with those of 178 Latin Rite dioceses in the United States into a 10-page document that the bishops' conference was scheduled to submit to the Vatican's General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in late August.
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