Catholic leaders want ‘synodal’ Church in Latin America

Catholic leaders want ‘synodal’ Church in Latin America Catholics and members of a Peruvian community living in Chile attend the procession of El Señor de los Milagros (The Lord of the Miracles), Peru’s most revered Catholic religious icon, in Santiago, Chile, October 30. Photo: CNS/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters

by Barbara Fraser The Church in Latin America and the Caribbean is called to be a missionary Church that heeds the cry of the poor and excluded; a synodal Church where women, young people and laypeople have greater roles; and a Church that is evangelised even as it evangelises, according to the final document of…

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