Opening Mass of the Diocesan Synodal Process | October 17, 2021 | Saint Patrick's Cathedral | Bishop Olson's Homily

Synod is a word from Greek that means a meeting of people. In 1965, as a means of the continuing implementation of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Saint Paul VI created a new structure of the Holy See called the Synod of Bishops, and he planned for that standing office to organize regular meetings of bishops from around the world...

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