Cardinal McElroy Asks Task Force to Implement Agenda of Synod on Synodality, by Louis Knuffke

By Louis Knuffke, CatholicVote, November 12, 2024

CV NEWS FEED // At the U.S. bishops’ plenary assembly this week, Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego proposed that the bishops’ conference set up a task force to study and implement “synodality” throughout the Church in America.

The Cardinal made the proposal on Tuesday during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) meeting in Baltimore. Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark supported it. Cardinal McElroy said that Bishop Daniel Flores, who attended the Synod on Synodality in Rome, should be in charge of the task force.

Cardinals McElroy and Cupich first floated the idea in an October 27 interview with National Catholic Reporter (NCR), just hours after the final Papal Mass concluding the Synod on Synodality in Rome.

“This has to come in at the top of the list,” Cardinal Cupich said in the interview, maintaining that the American bishops’ conference must hold itself “accountable for building a synodal, missionary church.” …

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