In a major speech at the University of Fribourg, Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny has made the case for the just begun Synod on Synodality as a deeply necessary and Catholic project that builds upon the graces and truth of the Second Vatican Council.
“Here is an opportunity to move together in a civil and Christian manner,” Czerny told theologians and Church leadership gathered at the Swiss university Oct. 14. “It’s a chance for our Church here in the middle of the continent to become an ever more missionary and evangelizing force in the reconstruction of our common home in Europe.”
Delivered in French, but with an English text provided to The Catholic Register, Czerny mounted a defence of the entire program of openness, dialogue and discernment that Pope Francis has advocated since his election in 2013.
“Nine hundred years after the poverello of Assisi, we have a new ‘Franciscan’ program, suited to the particular issues of our times and in response to the timeless call of the Spirit,” Czerny said.
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